The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China

by G.E.R. Lloyd

Book Overview

In The Ambitions of Curiosity, first published in 2002, one of the world's foremost philosophers of science explores the origins and growth of systematic inquiry in Greece, China, and Mesopotamia. Professor Lloyd examines which factors stimulated or inhibited this development, and whose interests were served. He asks who set the agenda? What was the role of the state in sponsoring, supporting or blocking research, in such areas as historiography,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521894611
• ISBN13: 9780521894616
• Release Date: October 2002
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 200 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.0"