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The Forgotten Revolution: How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why it Had to Be Reborn
By Lucio Russo, Silvio Levy
Springer | 2004 | ISBN: 3540203966 | 487 pages | PDF | 16.7 mb

The third and second centuries BC witnessed, in the Greek world, a scientific and technological explosion. Greek culture had reached great heights in art, literature and philosophy already in the earlier classical era, but it was in the age of Archimedes and Euclid that science as we know it was born, and gave rise to sophisticated technology that would not be seen again until the 18th century. This scientific revolution was also accompanied by great changes and a new kind of awareness in many other fields, including art and medicine.
What were the landmarks in the meteoric rise of science 2300 years ago? Why are they so little known today, even among scientists, classicists and historians? How do they relate to the post-1500 science that we are familiar with from school? What led to the end of ancient science? These are the questions that this book discusses, in the belief that the answers bear on choices we face today.

Contents
Introduction 1
1 The Birth of Science 5
2 Hellenistic Mathematics 31
3 Other Hellenistic Scientic Theories 57
4 Scientic Technology 95
5 Medicine and Other Empirical Sciences 143
6 The Hellenistic Scientic Method 171
7 Some Other Aspects of the Scientic Revolution 203
8 The Decadence and End of Science 231
9 Science, Technology and Economy 243
10 Lost Science 269
11 The Age-Long Recovery 329
Appendix 399
List of Passages 403
References 419
General Index 435