Description
The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists is the first comprehensive English language work to offer a survey of all ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity. A team of over 100 of the world’s experts in the field have compiled this Encyclopedia, including entries which aren’t mentioned in every other reference work – resulting in a unique and hugely ambitious resource with a view to prove indispensable for somebody in quest of the main points of the history of ancient science.
Additional features include a Glossary, Gazetteer, and Time-Line. The Glossary explains many Greek (or Latin) terms difficult to translate, even as the Gazetteer describes the many locales from which scientists came. The Time-Line shows the rapid rise in the practice of science in the 5th century BCE and rapid decline after Hadrian, as a result of the centralization of Roman power, with consequent lack of a context within which science could flourish.