Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical Introduction

Preface 1. Science before the Greeks 2. The new concept of nature 3. Plato and Greek mathematics 4. Aristotle and the knowledge of Nature 5. Practical astronomy 6. Early Greek cosmology 7. Mathematical astronomy 8. The foundation of statics 9. Dynamics in antiquity 10. The conception of light and sound 11. The structure of material substances 12. Properties of matter and chemical change 13. The transmission of Greek science 14. Experimental physics in the Middle Ages 15. The development of statics 16. The establishment of kinematics 17. Force and motion in the Middle Ages 18. Mediaeval astronomy 19. The change called Renaissance 20. The reform of astronomy Bibliography Index.