- 希腊科学(英文版)(精)/SCIENCE系列/寰宇文献
- - 作者：编者:(美)格雷戈里·D·沃尔科特//江晓原|责编:闫丽娜
  - 出版社：华文
  - ISBN：9787507556704
  - 出版日期：2022/11/01
  - 页数：579
- 售价：352

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科学是关于自然世界的经验，理论和实践知识，所有的科学知识汇聚为科学文献，是研究科学和科学史必不可少的工具，科学文献中的权威著作便是科学元典，科学元典是科学进一步发展的灯塔和坐标。科学史原始文献，分希腊科学、物理学、地理学、动物学、逻辑学、数学、心理学，出版七卷，约6000页。
《科学元典：希腊科学》是《科学元典》系列其中一部。本书详尽地希腊时期的原始科学资料，精心挑选了主要科学的最重要的贡献者的重要章节。本书对古代和中世纪的原始资料的补充摘录，提供的是原始的希腊科学著作，反映了希腊时代的研究方法和思想。选文配有目录和索引，资料详尽。本书为全英文影印版，并配有精美的插图，方便读者参阅。
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GENERAL EDITOR'S PREFACE
PREFACE
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
MATHEMATICS
  Introductory Note
  The Divisions of Mathematics Pure and Applied
  Arithmetic or the Theory of Numbers
    Proportions
    Figured Numbers
    Perfect Numbers
    Friendly (Amicable) Numbers
    Incommensurable Numbers
      The General Theory of Proportion and the Theory of Incommensurable Magnitudes
  Prime Numbers
    The Number of Primes is Infinite
  Some Additional Thcorems and Problems in the Theory of Numbers
    Right-Angled Triangles with Sides in Rational Nunbers
    The Summation of a Geometrical Series
    On Cubic Numbers
  Algebra
    Some Mathematical Problems in the Greek Anthology
    The Cattle Problem of Archimedes
    Problems from Diophantus
  Geometry
    The History of Geometry to the Time of Euclid
    Analysis and Synthesis in Geometry
      An Example of Analysis and Synthesis
    Note on Pythagorean Geometry
  Elementary Geometry
    Postulates
      The Parallel Postulate
    The Method of Exhaustion
    The "Pythagorean" Theorem
    The Golden Section
    The Horn-Angle
    The Three Famous Geometrical Problems of the Greeks
    1. The Squaring of the Circle
      a. Early Attempts
      b. Hippocrates of Chios
      c. Higher Curves
      The Spiral
    The Quadratrix
      d. The Area of a Circle
      Approximations to x
    2. The Duplication of the Cube
    3. The Trisection of an Angle
      Solution by a "Verging
    Mechanical and Geometric Methods Contrasted
    Conic Sections
    The Problem of Pappus

    An Anticipation of Guldin's Theorem
    On the Sagacity of Bees in Building Their Cells
  Trigonometry
    Application of Trigonom?try
  Some Numerical Problems in Mensuration
  ASTRONOMY AND MATHEMATICAL GEOGRAPHY
    Introductory Note
   ASTRONOMY
    The Scope of Astronomy Contrasted with that of Physics
    Some Early Theories
      Thales
      Anaximander
      Pythagoras
      Anaxagoras
      Oenopides
    Pythagorean Astronomy
      The Central Fire
      The Harmony of the Spheres
    Note on Plato's Astronomy
    Elementary Notions in Astronomy
    The Theory of Concentric Spheres
      An Objection to the Theory of Concentric Spheres
    The Rotation of the Earth on Its Axis
    The Revolution of Mercury and Venus about the Sun
    The Heliocentric Hypothesis
    The Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon
    The Precession of the Equinoxes
    The Motion of the Sun and the Planets
      On Day and Night
      The Month
    Hypotheses of Ptolemaic Astronomy
      On the Order of the Theorems
      That the Heaven Rotates as a Sphere
      The Absolute Immobility of the Earth
    Note on the Ptolemaic System
    The Star Catalogue of Ptolemy
    Some Astronomical Instruments and Their Use
      Sundials and Water Clocks
      Astronomical Applications of the Dioptra
      An Ancient Planetarium

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