找到了！：科学的诞生

　　人类不断地在设法用科学的态度来对待自然，这是人类思想中的奇迹。这种科学态度是在何时、何去何从地开始的？ 《找到了！科学的诞生》向我们展示，科学是从古希腊开始的。在摆脱了常识和宗教信条的束缚后，古希腊人不再用神话和创造性的神来解释世界，来区别自然与超自然；正是古希腊人最早发现了自然。随着新理论的提出和证实，知识变得越来越复杂。最后，人们认识到科学不同于技术。 本书作者对西方文明的起源和人类追求理性宇宙体系的愿望进行了有趣的探索，阐明了科学的起源。

　　安德鲁·葛列格里，伦敦大学学院科学史讲师，曾先后获得哲学学士，历史及科学哲学博士学位；在电视台和电台主持有关科学史的专题讨论。

Acknowledgements
Dedication
The Creation of Science
1. The Early Greeks and their Predecessors
Science Must Begin with Myths
Two Cultures
Cosmos : an Elegant Universe
Myths and Theories
Natural Phenomena
2. The First Scientific Theories
The Fathers of Medicine
Eleatics and Atomists :Achilles and the Tortoise
The Pythagoreans:the Secret Magic of Numbers
Come the Time of Proof
Euclid
Science and Technology
Great Achievement Assured
3. Men of the World
Plato
Teleology:the Best of all Possible Worlds
Atomism : Let us Trace the Pattern
No Slight or Trivial Influence
Aristotle: The Master of Those who Know
The Terrestrial Realm
The Heavens
Speculations Upon Matter
Aristotle and Qualities
Explanations
Direction of Explanation : Clockwork Lives
4. Heavenly Thoughts
Eudoxus : Thinking Regressively
Ptolemaic Astronomy
The Four Seasons
Revolutionary Thinking
Modelling the Heavens
5. The Origins of the Cosmos and of Life:
Consider your Origins
6. Medicine and the Life Sciences
Galen
Ancient Thought on Blood
Aristotle and Biology: Biology's Beginnings
Embryology and Species
Taxonomy
7. Later Greek Science: After Aristotle
Epicurus and Epicureanism : on the Nature of Things
Stoics:the Active and the Passive
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The Creation of Science
Appendices