Geoffrey Lloyd
Biographic Data
| ID | 187150 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Geoffrey Lloyd |
| GIVEN NAMES | Geoffrey |
| FAMILY NAME | Lloyd |
| SIGNATURE | LLOYD G |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Cambridge |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-1550-5453 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 17 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 17 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Perspectives all the way down: A reply
We are both delighted and honored to have received such constructive criticisms and comments on our book and to have been given the opportunity to respond.A full reply would mean another short book, but we shall concentrate on the most important points.True to the model we adopted in the book itself, we thought our own further remarks should best be framed in the form of a dialogue, or rather, since they constitute a conversation on a conversatio…
Diagrams and machines in the Aristotelian Mechanics: Joyce van Leeuwen: The Aristotelian Mechanics: Text and Diagrams. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Sciences 316. Springer: Cham, Hei…
Pythagoras
The evidence for Pythagoras in Aristotle's lost work on the Pythagoreans is problematic, and what he has to say about him in the extant treatises amounts to very little. This chapter discusses the issues by going back some fifty years, to 1962, which happens to be the date of two highly influential books by supremely distinguished scholars. Plato has one important reference to Pythagoras, namely to the point that he taught his followers a way of …
A History of Pythagoreanism
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted …
Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy
This is the first exploration of how ideas of politeia (constitution) structure both political and extra-political relations throughout the entirety of Greek and Roman philosophy, ranging from Presocratic to classical, Hellenistic, and Neoplatonic thought. A highly distinguished international team of scholars investigate topics such as the Athenian, Spartan and Platonic visions of politeia, the reshaping of Greek and Latin vocabularies of politic…
The History of Ancient Science: A Personal View
My subject is the history of science in antiquity, where the convention I adopt for “antiquity” is that it covers everything from the earliest recorded Mesopotamian investigations in the third millennium BCE down to the end of the third century CE, by which time two particularly significant upheavals had taken place at either end of the Euro-Asia land mass. I refer to the Christianization of the Greco-Roman World and the rise of Buddhism in China…
What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing (review)
Reviewed by: What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing Sir Geoffrey Lloyd Paul U. Unschuld. What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xiv + 236 pp. Ill. $60.00 (cloth, 978-0-520-25765-8), $24.95 (paperbound, 978-0-520-25766-5). Paul Unschuld is well known as a specialist in Chinese medicine, on which he has written a series of important studies. Three of the most…
Pneumabetween body and soul
This paper explores the divergent ideas that different ancient Greek thinkers entertained on the nature of wind and air outside the body, on the role of breath and air within it (e.g. in causing disease), on their contribution to life and intelligence, and on the mind-body problem, where dualists who insisted that the soul is incorporeal were locked in controversy with monists who denied that. One of the distinctive features of Greek thought is i…
The Potential of the Comparative History of Pre-Modern Science
Argument While undeniably more restricted in many respects than the history of modern science (both in that the evidence is lacunose and because the science itself is more elementary) the comparative inquiry into ancient investigations may, from another point of view, be said to be far richer. We can open up the question of why science should have taken such different forms in different ancient civilizations. How did the ancient investigators com…
Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture
Engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilizations, which is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we continue to face today. How far is it possible to arrive at an understanding of alien systems of belief? Is it possible to talk meaningfully of 'science' and of its various constituent disciplines, 'astronomy', 'geography', 'anatomy', and so on, in the ancient world? Ar…
Literacy in Greek and Chinese Science: Some Comparative Issues
Work done in the wake of the pioneering studies of Goody and Watt, Havelock, and others has put on the agenda a series of evidently crucial, if highly obscure, questions. If we can all agree that the existence of written records and other types of texts makes a difference, the issue is: what difference? The key questions include: who is in control; who makes the texts; who has access to them; who uses them; and for what purposes? How are those wh…
Essay Review: A reply to Norman Simms
On the Elements According to Hippocrates (review)
Reviewed by: On the Elements According to Hippocrates Geoffrey Lloyd Galen. On the Elements According to Hippocrates. Edition, translation, and commentary by Phillip De Lacy. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V 1, 2. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1996. 236 pp. DM 220.00. Galen’s short treatise On the Elements According to Hippocrates (De elementis secundum Hippocratem, hereafter El. sec. Hipp.) was among the more influential of his works. In it he sets out t…
Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature. Roger French
The comparative history of pre-modern science: The pitfalls and the prizes
Les papyrus medicaux de l'Egypte Pharaonique: Traduction integrale et commentaire. Thierry Bardinet
New perspectives on ancient science
Did science develop differently in different ancient civilisations, and if so, why? This article compares the development of medicine, mathematics and astronomy in ancient Greece and ancient China. It identifies certain significant differences in the way in which the problems were formulated and the aims and methods used to resolve them, and it relates these to the social institutions and values of the society within which the scientists work
Pneumabetween body and soul
This paper explores the divergent ideas that different ancient Greek thinkers entertained on the nature of wind and air outside the body, on the role of breath and air within it (e.g. in causing disease), on their contribution to life and intelligence, and on the mind-body problem, where dualists who insisted that the soul is incorporeal were locked in controversy with monists who denied that. One of the distinctive features of Greek thought is i…
The comparative history of pre-modern science: The pitfalls and the prizes
New perspectives on ancient science
Did science develop differently in different ancient civilisations, and if so, why? This article compares the development of medicine, mathematics and astronomy in ancient Greece and ancient China. It identifies certain significant differences in the way in which the problems were formulated and the aims and methods used to resolve them, and it relates these to the social institutions and values of the society within which the scientists work
Les papyrus medicaux de l'Egypte Pharaonique: Traduction integrale et commentaire. Thierry Bardinet
The comparative history of pre-modern science: The pitfalls and the prizes
On the Elements According to Hippocrates (review)
Reviewed by: On the Elements According to Hippocrates Geoffrey Lloyd Galen. On the Elements According to Hippocrates. Edition, translation, and commentary by Phillip De Lacy. Corpus Medicorum Graecorum V 1, 2. Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1996. 236 pp. DM 220.00. Galen’s short treatise On the Elements According to Hippocrates (De elementis secundum Hippocratem, hereafter El. sec. Hipp.) was among the more influential of his works. In it he sets out t…
Ancient Natural History: Histories of Nature. Roger French
Essay Review: A reply to Norman Simms
Literacy in Greek and Chinese Science: Some Comparative Issues
Work done in the wake of the pioneering studies of Goody and Watt, Havelock, and others has put on the agenda a series of evidently crucial, if highly obscure, questions. If we can all agree that the existence of written records and other types of texts makes a difference, the issue is: what difference? The key questions include: who is in control; who makes the texts; who has access to them; who uses them; and for what purposes? How are those wh…
Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture
Engages in a wide-ranging exploration of what we can learn from the study of ancient civilizations, which is relevant to fundamental problems, both intellectual and moral, that we continue to face today. How far is it possible to arrive at an understanding of alien systems of belief? Is it possible to talk meaningfully of 'science' and of its various constituent disciplines, 'astronomy', 'geography', 'anatomy', and so on, in the ancient world? Ar…
The Potential of the Comparative History of Pre-Modern Science
Argument While undeniably more restricted in many respects than the history of modern science (both in that the evidence is lacunose and because the science itself is more elementary) the comparative inquiry into ancient investigations may, from another point of view, be said to be far richer. We can open up the question of why science should have taken such different forms in different ancient civilizations. How did the ancient investigators com…
Pneumabetween body and soul
This paper explores the divergent ideas that different ancient Greek thinkers entertained on the nature of wind and air outside the body, on the role of breath and air within it (e.g. in causing disease), on their contribution to life and intelligence, and on the mind-body problem, where dualists who insisted that the soul is incorporeal were locked in controversy with monists who denied that. One of the distinctive features of Greek thought is i…
What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing (review)
Reviewed by: What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing Sir Geoffrey Lloyd Paul U. Unschuld. What Is Medicine? Western and Eastern Approaches to Healing. Berkeley: University of California Press, 2009. xiv + 236 pp. Ill. $60.00 (cloth, 978-0-520-25765-8), $24.95 (paperbound, 978-0-520-25766-5). Paul Unschuld is well known as a specialist in Chinese medicine, on which he has written a series of important studies. Three of the most…
Politeia in Greek and Roman Philosophy
This is the first exploration of how ideas of politeia (constitution) structure both political and extra-political relations throughout the entirety of Greek and Roman philosophy, ranging from Presocratic to classical, Hellenistic, and Neoplatonic thought. A highly distinguished international team of scholars investigate topics such as the Athenian, Spartan and Platonic visions of politeia, the reshaping of Greek and Latin vocabularies of politic…
The History of Ancient Science: A Personal View
My subject is the history of science in antiquity, where the convention I adopt for “antiquity” is that it covers everything from the earliest recorded Mesopotamian investigations in the third millennium BCE down to the end of the third century CE, by which time two particularly significant upheavals had taken place at either end of the Euro-Asia land mass. I refer to the Christianization of the Greco-Roman World and the rise of Buddhism in China…
Pythagoras
The evidence for Pythagoras in Aristotle's lost work on the Pythagoreans is problematic, and what he has to say about him in the extant treatises amounts to very little. This chapter discusses the issues by going back some fifty years, to 1962, which happens to be the date of two highly influential books by supremely distinguished scholars. Plato has one important reference to Pythagoras, namely to the point that he taught his followers a way of …
A History of Pythagoreanism
This is a comprehensive, authoritative and innovative account of Pythagoras and Pythagoreanism, one of the most enigmatic and influential philosophies in the West. In twenty-one chapters covering a timespan from the sixth century BC to the seventeenth century AD, leading scholars construct a number of different images of Pythagoras and his community, assessing current scholarship and offering new answers to central problems. Chapters are devoted …
Diagrams and machines in the Aristotelian Mechanics: Joyce van Leeuwen: The Aristotelian Mechanics: Text and Diagrams. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Sciences 316. Springer: Cham, Hei…
Perspectives all the way down: A reply
We are both delighted and honored to have received such constructive criticisms and comments on our book and to have been given the opportunity to respond.A full reply would mean another short book, but we shall concentrate on the most important points.True to the model we adopted in the book itself, we thought our own further remarks should best be framed in the form of a dialogue, or rather, since they constitute a conversation on a conversatio…
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