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Science, Folklore, and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece - Geoffrey Ernest Lloyd - Paperback

Science, Folklore, and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece - Geoffrey Ernest Lloyd - Paperback

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  • ISBN-13: 9780521273077
  • ISBN: 0521273072
  • Publisher: Cambridge University Press

AUTHOR

Lloyd, G. E.

SUMMARY

Taking a set of central issues from ancient Greek medicine and biology, this book studies first the interaction between scientific theorising and folklore or popular assumptions, and second the ideological character of scientific inquiry. Topics of current interest in the philosphy and sociology of science illuminated here include the relationship between primitive thought and early science, and the roles of the consensus of the scientific community, of tradition and of the authority of the written text, in the development of science.Lloyd, G. E. is the author of 'Science, Folklore, and Ideology: Studies in the Life Sciences in Ancient Greece - Geoffrey Ernest Lloyd - Paperback' with ISBN 9780521273077 and ISBN 0521273072.

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