[PDF.61in] The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China (Ideas in Context)

The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China (Ideas in Context)

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 | #2474180 in Books |  Cambridge University Press |  2002-10-21 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  8.98 x.47 x5.98l,.79 | File type: PDF | 200 pages

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| Good for scholars, bad for the laity|By Chris Crawford|The easiest review statement I can make about this book is this: it is not for civilians. Instead, this is a book for scholars. It is dense. It assumes that the reader is already acquainted with Greek and Chinese intellectual history.

Mr. Lloyd is certainly one of the world's greatest authorities on the compariso| |"G.E.R. Lloyd has produced an important work...recommended." Bryn Mawr Classical|About the Author|G. E. R. Lloyd is Emeritus Professor of Ancient Philosophy and Science at the University of Cambridge; he was Master of

In The Ambitions of Curiosity, G.E.R. Lloyd explores the origins and growth of systematic inquiry in Greece, China, and Mesopotamia. It asks such questions as what factors stimulated or inhibited this development? Whose interests were served? Who set the agenda? What was the role of the state in sponsoring, supporting or blocking research, in such areas as historiography, natural philosophy, medical research, astronomy, technology in all those fields. How were each of th...

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