The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China - Couverture souple

Lloyd, G

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0521894611 ISBN 13 : 9780521894616

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2010

Synopsis

In The Ambitions of Curiosity, first published in 2002, one of the world's foremost philosophers of science explores the origins and growth of systematic inquiry in Greece, China, and Mesopotamia. Professor Lloyd examines which factors stimulated or inhibited this development, and whose interests were served. He asks who set the agenda? What was the role of the state in sponsoring, supporting or blocking research, in such areas as historiography, natural philosophy, medical research, astronomy, technology, pure and applied mathematics? How were each of those fields defined and developed in different ancient societies? How did truly innovative thinkers persuade their own contemporaries to accept their work? Professor Lloyd explores the different routes those developments took in China, Greece and Mesopotamia, and demonstrates the unexpected results of many research efforts, as well as the tensions between state control and individual innovation and the different ways they were resolved - problems that remain central to scientific research today.

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À propos de l?auteur

G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge; he was Master of Darwin College from 1989 to 2000.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0521894611
• ISBN 13: 9780521894616
• Reliure: Broché
• Langue: anglais
• Nombre de pages: 200
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible