Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature
Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature By Roger French
Publisher: Routledge 1994 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0415088801 , 0415115450 | PDF | 4 MB
Publisher: Routledge 1994 | 384 Pages | ISBN: 0415088801 , 0415115450 | PDF | 4 MB
Ancient Natural History surveys the ways in which people in the ancient world thought about nature, particularly animals and plants. It looks at those people whose wider views are known, so that we can see their natural history in context. As a large number of readers are aware of the importance of Greek "science" in later periods of European history, this book is designed to show how such doctrines arose in ancient society.