Liba Taub is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.She is a Fellow of Newnham College. Her books include The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science (2020); The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1: Ancient Science (2018), co-edited with Alexander Jones; and Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2017).

For anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way into a new subject, Liba Taub's Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction achieves its goal...The book, and presumably each in the series, is tiny at only 7 inches tall and 4.5 inches wide, light to hold, and bendable at the spine. It's a diminutive treat to tuck away in a bag for easy access on a train or in a cafe where one might have time for an "accessible" overview of a dense subject.

• Introduction 1: Expert poets 2: Inventing nature 3: Those clever Greeks 4: Let no one unskilled in geometry enter here 5: A theory of everything 6: Old school ties 7: Roman Natura 8: How high the moon? River Deep Mountain High 9: Is there scientific progress? 10: Going by the book - or not 11: Beyond antiquity Ancient Science timeline Further Reading Index

Liba Taub is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.She is a Fellow of Newnham College. Her books include The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science (2020); The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1: Ancient Science (2018), co-edited with Alexander Jones; and Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2017).

For anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way into a new subject, Liba Taub's Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction achieves its goal...The book, and presumably each in the series, is tiny at only 7 inches tall and 4.5 inches wide, light to hold, and bendable at the spine. It's a diminutive treat to tuck away in a bag for easy access on a train or in a cafe where one might have time for an "accessible" overview of a dense subject.

• Introduction 1: Expert poets 2: Inventing nature 3: Those clever Greeks 4: Let no one unskilled in geometry enter here 5: A theory of everything 6: Old school ties 7: Roman Natura 8: How high the moon? River Deep Mountain High 9: Is there scientific progress? 10: Going by the book - or not 11: Beyond antiquity Ancient Science timeline Further Reading Index

Liba Taub is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science, in the Department of the History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Cambridge, and Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science.She is a Fellow of Newnham College. Her books include The Cambridge Companion to Ancient Greek and Roman Science (2020); The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 1: Ancient Science (2018), co-edited with Alexander Jones; and Science Writing in Greco-Roman Antiquity (2017).

For anyone wanting a stimulating and accessible way into a new subject, Liba Taub's Ancient Greek and Roman Science: A Very Short Introduction achieves its goal...The book, and presumably each in the series, is tiny at only 7 inches tall and 4.5 inches wide, light to hold, and bendable at the spine. It's a diminutive treat to tuck away in a bag for easy access on a train or in a cafe where one might have time for an "accessible" overview of a dense subject.

• Introduction 1: Expert poets 2: Inventing nature 3: Those clever Greeks 4: Let no one unskilled in geometry enter here 5: A theory of everything 6: Old school ties 7: Roman Natura 8: How high the moon? River Deep Mountain High 9: Is there scientific progress? 10: Going by the book - or not 11: Beyond antiquity Ancient Science timeline Further Reading Index