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| 008 - FIXED-LENGTH DATA ELEMENTS--GENERAL INFORMATION |
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200605s2019 enk ob 001 0 eng d |
| 020 ## - INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER |
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| International Standard Book Number |
9781350137059 |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN |
9780857739551 (electronic book) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN |
9781350121515 (paperback) |
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| Canceled/invalid ISBN |
9781780761718 (hardback) |
| 100 ## - MAIN ENTRY--PERSONAL NAME |
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| Personal name |
Lang, Philippa, |
| Dates associated with a name |
1974- |
| Relator term |
author. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
18078 |
| 245 ## - TITLE STATEMENT |
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| Title |
Science : |
| Remainder of title |
antiquity and its legacy / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc. |
by Philippa Lang. |
| 250 ## - EDITION STATEMENT |
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| Edition statement |
First edition. |
| 260 ## - PUBLICATION, DISTRIBUTION, ETC. |
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| Place of publication, distribution, etc. |
London : |
| Name of publisher, distributor, etc. |
Bloomsbury Academic, |
| Date of publication, distribution, etc. |
2019. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION |
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| Extent |
1 online resource (240 pages). |
| 504 ## - BIBLIOGRAPHY, ETC. NOTE |
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| Bibliography, etc. note |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| 520 ## - SUMMARY, ETC. |
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| Summary, etc. |
"Ancient science is a subject that commands extensive general interest. This is the first non-technical survey of the interface between ancient and modern science. It is aimed at crossover student sales in classics, the history of ideas and the history and philosophy of science. Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. But the bold investigative experimentation and scientific systems of thought that this era spawned were in turn thoroughly influenced by Greek and Roman authors and ideas. Xenophanes' ideas about fossils informed the science of geology. Copernicus and his novel notion that the earth revolved around the sun, and not vice versa, were arguably influenced by the Samian philosopher and mathematician, Aristarchus. And the anatomists of Alexandria still - even today - have valuable insights to bring to current ethical discussions of vivisection and animal welfare. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid's geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles, Philippa Lang addresses the fascinating differences and similarities between ancient and modern conceptions of 'science'.She discusses the origins of the cosmos; natural laws in mathematics and physics; conceptions and philosophies of biology and disease; ideas about mechanistic science and technology as they have been used to control the societies of human beings; and the important nexus between science, morality and ethics. Greek and Roman parallels illuminate and clarify the meaning of science itself."--Bloomsbury Publishing. |
| 533 ## - REPRODUCTION NOTE |
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| Type of reproduction |
Electronic reproduction. |
| Place of reproduction |
London : |
| Agency responsible for reproduction |
Bloomsbury Publishing, |
| Date of reproduction |
2020. |
| Note about reproduction |
Available via World Wide Web. |
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Access limited by licensing agreement. |
| 650 ## - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Science, Ancient. |
| 9 (RLIN) |
18079 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Science. |
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18080 |
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| Topical term or geographic name entry element |
Western philosophy: Ancient, to c 500. |
| Source of heading or term |
BIC |
| 9 (RLIN) |
18081 |
| 856 ## - ELECTRONIC LOCATION AND ACCESS |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier |
<a href="https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350137059?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections">https://doi.org/10.5040/9781350137059?locatt=label:secondary_bloomsburyCollections</a> |
| 942 ## - ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) |
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| Koha item type |
e-Book |
