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Wrestling with nature : from omens to science / edited by Peter Harrison, Ronald L. Numbers, and Michael H. Shank. - Chicago : University of Chicago Press, 2011. - x, 416 p. : ill., map ; 24 cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Natural knowledge in ancient Mesopotamia / Francesca Rochberg -- Natural knowledge in the classical world / Daryn Lahoux -- Natural knowledge in the Arabic Middle Ages / Jon McGinnis -- Natural knowledge in the Latin Middle Ages / Michael H. Shank -- Natural history / Peter Harrison -- Mixed mathematics / Peter Dear -- Natural philosophy / John L. Heilbron -- Science and medicine / Ronald L. Numbers -- Science and technology / Ronald Kline -- Science and religion / Jon H. Roberts -- Science, pseudoscience, and science falsely so-called / Ronald L. Numbers & Daniel P. Thurs -- Scientific methods / Daniel P. Thurs -- Science and the public / Bernard Lightman -- Science and place / David N. Livingstone.

ISBN: 9780226317816 (cloth : alk. paper) 0226317811 (cloth : alk. paper) 9780226317830 (pbk. : alk. paper) 0226317838 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN: 2010036527

Subjects--Topical Terms:
Science--History.
Natural history--History.
Philosophy of nature--History.

LC Class. No.: Q125 / .W86 2011