' ' r. X, U' 't r 7-'' .t >•.>^ INSTITUTE FOR RESEARCH IN CLASSICAL PHILOSOPHY AND SCIENCE Sources and Studies in the History and Philosophy of Classical Science 2 Edited by Alan C. Bowen andFrancesca Rochberg-Halton AdvisoryBoard A. D. Barker B. S. Eastwood B. R. Goldstein D. E. Hahm K. R Moesgaard N. M. Swerdlow Science and Philosophy in Classical Greece EditedwithaPrefaceby ALAN BOWEN C. GARLAND PUBLISHING INC. NEWYORKandLONDON 1991 @ Copyright 1991bytheInstituteforResearchinClassicalPhilosophyandScience. Allrightsreserved.Exceptforbriefquotationsinareview,thisbook,orpartsthereof,mustnot bereproducedinanyformwithoutpermissioninwritingfromthepublisher. Forinformation consulttheInstituteforResearchinClassicalPhilosophyandScience,3NelsonRidgeRoad, Princeton,NJ08540. Originallypublishedin 1991 by the InstituteforResearch inClassical Philosophyand Science. PrintedanddistributedbyGarlandPublishingInc., 136MadisonAvenue,New York,NY 10016 Thisbookwastypesetin usingtheComputerModemfontfamilydesignedbyDonald E.KnuthandGraecadesignedbyPhillipB.Payne,forthebodytext. Displaytypewasset intheTimesfontfamilydevelopedbyAdobeSystemsIncorporated. LibraryofCongressCataloging-in-PublicationData Science and philos—ophy in classical Greece / edited, with a preface, by Alan C. Bowen, p. cm. (Sourcesandstudiesinthehistoryandphilosophyofclassical science:2) EssaysderivedfromaconferenceheldbytheInstituteforResearchinClassical PhilosophyandScience, 1986. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindexes. ISBN0-8153-0214-2(acid-freepaper) — — — — 1.Science Greece History. 2.Science Greece Philosophy. I.Bowen,AlanC. II.InstituteforResearchinClassicalPhilosophy andScience. HI.Series. Q127.G7S365 1991 590.38—dc20 91-37976 CIP PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica ISBN0-8153-0214-2 0 Printedonacid-freepaper To my colleagues at the University of Pittsburgh gratitude and appreciation