G. E. R. Lloyd

This study traces Greek science through the work of the Pythagoreans, the Presocratic natural philosophers, the Hippocratic writers, Plato, the fourth-century B.C. astronomers, and Aristotle. Early Greek Science by G. E. R. Lloyd also investigates the relationships between science and philosophy, and science and medicine. The author discusses the social and economic setting of early Greek science, and analyses the...