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The encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists : the Greek tradition and its many heirs
- Title
- The encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists : the Greek tradition and its many heirs / edited by Paul Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie.
- Publication
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2008.
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- Additional Authors
- Description
- x, 1,062 p. : ill.; 26 cm
- Summary
- This is the first comprehensive English language work to assemble information covering all Greek and Latin natural science, from its beginnings with Thales through the end of the Late Antiquity with Isidore of Seville and Paulos of Aigina.nbsp;nbsp;A team of over 100 of the world's experts in the field have compiled almost 1600 entries - 244 of those describingnbsp;figures that are not mentioned in any other reference work - resulting in a unique and hugely ambitious resource which will prove indispensable for anyone seeking the details of the history of ancient science.
- Alternative Title
- Ancient natural scientists
- Subjects
- Science
- Scientists
- Scientists > Greece > Encyclopedias
- To 1500
- Naturalists > Encyclopedias
- Naturalists > Greece > Encyclopedias
- Griechenland (Altertum)
- Altertum
- Naturalists > Biography
- Encyclopedias
- Vetenskapsmän > historia > antiken > biografi > uppslagsverk
- Naturwissenschaftler
- Naturvetenskap > historia > antiken > biografi > uppslagsverk
- Greek World > history > Encyclopedias > English
- History
- Römisches Reich
- Grekland > historia > antiken > biografi > uppslagsverk
- Antike
- Naturalists > Greece > Biography
- Biographie
- History, Ancient > Encyclopedias > English
- Greece
- Science > Greece > History > To 1500 > Encyclopedias
- Science, Ancient > Encyclopedias
- Naturphilosoph
- Science > history > Encyclopedias > English
- Genre/Form
- Biographie.
- Encyclopedias.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 13-26) and indexes.
- Call Number
- Q124.95
- ISBN
- 9780415340205 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 0415340209 (hardback : alk. paper)
- 9780203462737 (e-book)
- 0203462734 (e-book)
- LCCN
- 2008018375
- OCLC
- 213110650
- Title
- The encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists : the Greek tradition and its many heirs / edited by Paul Keyser and Georgia L. Irby-Massie.
- Imprint
- Milton Park, Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2008.
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 13-26) and indexes.
- Connect to:
- Chronological Term
- To 1500
- Added Author
- Keyser, Paul T. (Paul Turquand), 1957-Irby, Georgia L. (Georgia Lynette), 1965-
- Research Call Number
- *R-RMRR Q124.95 .E53 2008