文档介绍：Science and Technology
in World History
Volume 1
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Science and Technology
in World History
Volume 1: The Ancient World
and Classical Civilization
DAVID DEMING
McFarland & Company, Inc., Publishers
Jefferson, North Carolina, and London
The history of science is the history of mankind’s unity,
of its sublime purpose, of its gradual redemption.
—e Sarton (1884–1956)
LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGUING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA
Deming, David, ¡954–
Science and technology in world history / David Deming.
v. cm.
v. ¡. The ancient world and classical civilization — v. 2. Early
Christianity, the rise of Islam and the Middle Ages.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN 978-0-7864-3932-4 (v. 1 : softcover : 50# alk. paper) —
ISBN 978-0-7864-5839-4 (v. 2 : softcover : 50# alk. paper)
¡. Science—History. 2. Technology—History. 3. World history. I. Title
Q¡ 20¡0 509—dc22 20¡0008935
British Library cataloguing data are available
©20¡0 David Deming. All rights reserved
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or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying
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without permission in writing from the publisher.
On the cover: Friedrich Heinrich Füger, Prometheus Bringing Fire to
1 1
Mankind, oil on canvas ¡6 ⁄3" × 2¡ ⁄2", ¡8¡7 (Museumslandschaft Hessen
Kassel/Bridgeman Art Library); (background) Plate ¡ of the Harmonia
Macrocosmica, Andreas Cellarius, ¡66¡
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Table of Contents
Preface 1
Introduction 7
Science, Religion and Epistemology 7
Before the Greeks 9
1. The Greeks (c. 600–300 .) 15
Intellectual Freedom, Naturalism, and Demonstration 16
The Ionians (c. 600–400 .) 18
Pythagoras (c. 569–475 .) 29
Parmenides (c. 5