From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume I: Behind Western Europe (From Hesiod to Saussure, from Hippocrates to Jevons, 1)

This book is the first of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in this volume is ancient Mesopotamia, classical Antiquity and the Islamic Middle Ages. Combining general descriptions with extensive excerpts from original sources in English translation, it concentrates on ways of thinking and actual argumentation and not just on results and mistakes; questions of validity are primarily dealt with in the perspective of the time of the writing, not on that of the 21st century. The work is of great interest to historians of science and culture, students as well as seasoned workers – but also for amateurs willing to invest the necessary serious efforts. From Hesiod to Saussure-1.pdf GREEK ALPHABET Contents INTRODUCTORY OBSERVATIONS Guide to the reading, and notes on references and quotations “BEFORE PHILOSOPHY”: ANCIENT MESOPOTAMIA Near Eastern Bronze Age scribal Cultures Mesopotamia: Protoliterate and Sumerian beginnings The Old Babylonian period Collapse, and Assyrian new life of scholarship Texts “Examination Text A”  VAT 8512, the partition of a triangle YOS 10, 17 and OBE 1, extispicy The therapeutical series UGU, tablet BAM 237, gynaecology The magical series Maqlû The Farmer’s Instructions CLASSICAL ANTIQUITY The beginnings The “miracle” “Pre-Socratic science” From Socrates to Aristotle Hellenism Late Antiquity Texts Hesiod, Theogony The Orphic current. Reports Hesiod, Works and Days Thales of Miletos. Reports Anaximander, fragments and summary of ancient accounts The Hippocratic corpus The Sacred Disease Airs Waters Places Prognostic Ancient Medicine Herodotos, Histories Aristotle, Constitution of Athens Titus Livy, Ab urbe condita Aristotle, Metaphysics, book A Aristotle, Metaphysics, book Λ Aristotle, On the Heavens Ptolemy, Syntaxis mathematica Ptolemy, Tetrabiblos Sextus Empiricus, Against the Astrologers Aristotle, Historia animalium Aristotle, On the Soul Theophrastos, Inquiry into Plants Theophrastos, Characters The Elder Pliny, Natural History Galen, On the Natural Faculties Archytas, fragments 1 and 2 Plutarch, Quaestiones conviviales Euclid, Elements Sextus Empiricus, Against the Geometers Archimedes, On the Equilibrium of planes Aristotle(?), Mechanica Plotinus, The Enneads Proclos Diadochos, Elements of Theology Lucretius, On the Nature of Things Aristotle, Categories Donatus, Ars minor Cassiodorus, Institutiones divinarum et saecularium literarum. Augustine, De civitate Dei  THE ISLAMIC MIDDLE AGES The political, socio-economic and religious-jurisprudential landscape Institutions The beginnings of Islamic science New impact of old knowledge Philosophy Other awāʾil sciences “The Islamic miracle” “Naturalization” Texts Report about Sulaymān ibn Jarīr Ibn Ḥanbal, The Roots of the Sunnah Ḥunayn ibn Isḥāq’s letter to ʿAlī ibn Yaḥyā about the books of Galen that as far as he knows have been translated, and a few of those that have not Al-Fārābī, Catalogue of the Sciences The Philosopher’s Assembly al-Khwārizmī, Book of Algebra and Almucabala, translated by Gerard of Cremona Abū Kāmil, Book of the Rarities of Calculation Book Explaining the Beauties of Trade and the Knowledge of Good and Bad Merchandise and How Frauds Falsify It Al-Ṭabarī, Histories Muḥammad ibn Isḥāq al-Nadīm, Fihrist Abū Maʿšar, The Book of Conjunctions Ibn Khaldūn, Muqaddimah BIBLIOGRAPHY Index