Studies in the history of science/ by E.A. Speiser ... [and others]. - Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1969 - 3 p.l., 123 p.: diagrs., 24 cm.

At head of title: University of Pennsylvania. Bicentennial Conference.

Includes bibliographies.

Ancient Mesopotamia and the beginnings of science, by E.A. Speiser.--Some fundamental concepts in ancient astronomy, by O.E. Neugebauer.--Medicine and surgery in ancient Egypt, by Hermann Ranke.--Medieval medicine, by H.E. Sigerist.--The rise of modern scientific medicine, by R.H. Shryock.--Two centuries of surgery, by E.A. Graham.--Logico-historical study of mechanism, vitalism, naturalism, by E.A. Singer.--The mathematical way of thinking, by Hermann Weyl .

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Science---History
Medicine---History

510.9 / S933