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出版时间：2002-1  出版社：重庆大学出版社  作者：Gregory  页数：224  字数：165000  
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内容概要

人类不断地在设法用科学的态度来对待自然，这是人类思想中的奇迹。这科学态度是在何时、何地开始的?　　《找到了!科学的诞生》向我们展示，科学是从古希腊开始的。在摆脱了学识和宗教信条的束缚后，古希腊人不再用神话和任性的神来解释世界，来区别自然与超自然；正是古希腊人最早发现了自然。随着新理论的提出和证实，知识变得越来越复杂。最后，人们认识到科学不同于技术。　　本书作者对西方文明的起源和人类追求理性宇宙体系的愿望进行了有趣的探索，阐明了科学的起源。

作者简介

安德鲁·葛列格里，伦敦大学学院科学史讲师，曾先后获得哲学学士，历史及科学哲学博士学位；在电视台和电台主持有关科学史的专题讨论。

书籍目录

AcknowledgementsDedicationThe Creation of Science1. The Early Greeks and their Predecessors  Science Must Begin with Myths  Two Cultures  Cosmos : an Elegant Universe  Myths and Theories  Natural Phenomena2. The First Scientific Theories  The Fathers of Medicine  Eleatics and Atomists :Achilles and the Tortoise  The Pythagoreans:the Secret Magic of Numbers  Come the Time of Proof  Euclid  Science and Technology  Great Achievement Assured3. Men of the World  Plato  Teleology:the Best of all Possible Worlds  Atomism : Let us Trace the Pattern  No Slight or Trivial Influence  Aristotle: The Master of Those who Know  The Terrestrial Realm  The Heavens  Speculations Upon Matter  Aristotle and Qualities  Explanations  Direction of Explanation : Clockwork Lives4. Heavenly Thoughts  Eudoxus : Thinking Regressively  Ptolemaic Astronomy  The Four Seasons  Revolutionary Thinking  Modelling the Heavens5. The Origins of the Cosmos and of Life:  Consider your Origins6. Medicine and the Life Sciences  Galen  Ancient Thought on Blood  Aristotle and Biology: Biology's Beginnings  Embryology and Species  Taxonomy7. Later Greek Science: After Aristotle  Epicurus and Epicureanism : on the Nature of Things  Stoics:the Active and the Passive  ……The Creation of ScienceAppendices