Geoffrey Lloyd engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilisations that is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we still face today. How far is it possible to arrive at an understanding of alien systems of belief? Is it possible to talk meaningfully of 'science' and of its various constituent discipli...(展开全部)

Geoffrey Lloyd engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilisations that is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we still face today. How far is it possible to arrive at an understanding of alien systems of belief? Is it possible to talk meaningfully of 'science' and of its various constituent discipl...(展开全部)

Geoffrey Lloyd engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilisations that is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we still face today. How far is it possible to arrive at an understanding of alien systems of belief? Is it possible to talk meaningfully of 'science' and of its various constituent discipl...(展开全部)

Geoffrey Lloyd engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilisations that is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we still face today. How far is it possible to arrive at an understanding of alien systems of belief? Is it possible to talk meaningfully of 'science' and of its various constituent discipli...(展开全部)

Landscape has been a key theme in world archaeology and trans-cultural art history over the last half century, particularly in the study of painting in art history and in all questions of human intervention and the placement of monuments in the natural world within archaeology. However, the representation of landscape has been rather less addressed in the scholarship of the arc...(展开全部)

This highly original, groundbreaking study explores the profound relationship between science and government to present a new understanding of modern state formation. Beginning with the experimental science of Robert Boyle in seventeenth-century England, Patrick Carroll develops the concept of engine science to capture the centrality of engineering practices and technologies in...(展开全部)

作者 | 张光直（Kwang-chih Chang，1931—2001） 当代著名人类学家、考古学家。毕生致力于中国史前考古。著有《古代中国考古学》《商文明》《中国青铜时代》等多部重要作品。他是沟通中西方考古学的“架桥人”，主张将中国考古学置于世界文化舞台。 作者 | 薛爱华（Edward Hetzel Schafer，1913—1991） 美国历史学家、汉学家，任教于加州大学伯克利分校，曾任美国东方学会会长，以唐史研究而著称。著有《撒马尔罕的金桃：唐代舶来品研究》《朱雀：唐代的南方意象》《珠崖：12世纪之前的海南岛》《神女：唐代文学中的龙女与雨女》等作品。 作者 | 牟复礼（Frederick W. Mote，1922—2005） 美国汉学家、中国史学者，普林斯顿大学东亚系的奠基人。曾主持编写《剑桥中国史·明代史》，将萧公权名著《中国政治思想史》译...(展开全部)

作者 | 张光直（Kwang-chih Chang，1931—2001） 当代著名人类学家、考古学家。毕生致力于中国史前考古。著有《古代中国考古学》《商文明》《中国青铜时代》等多部重要作品。他是沟通中西方考古学的“架桥人”，主张将中国考古学置于世界文化舞台。 作者 | 薛爱华（Edward Hetzel Schafer，1913—1991） 美国历史学家、汉学家，任教于加州大学伯克利分校，曾任美国东方学会会长，以唐史研究而著称。著有《撒马尔罕的金桃：唐代舶来品研究》《朱雀：唐代的南方意象》《珠崖：12世纪之前的海南岛》《神女：唐代文学中的龙女与雨女》等作品。 作者 | 牟复礼（Frederick W. Mote，1922—2005） 美国汉学家、中国史学者，普林斯顿大学东亚系的奠基人。曾主持编写《剑桥中国史·明代史》，将萧公权名著《中国政治思想史》译...(展开全部)

This book provides a comprehensive overview of the key themes in Greek and Roman science, medicine, mathematics and technology. A distinguished team of specialists engage with topics including the role of observation and experiment, Presocratic natural philosophy, ancient creationism, and the special style of ancient Greek mathematical texts, while several chapters confront key...(展开全部)