Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Dedication -- The Creation of Science -- 1 The Early Greeks and their Predecessors -- Science Must Begin with Myths -- Two Cultures -- Cosmos: an Elegant Universe -- Myths and Theories -- Natural Phenomena -- 2 The First Scientific Theories -- The Fathers of Medicine -- Eleatics and Atomists: Achilles and the Tortoise -- The Pythagoreans: the Secret Magic of Numbers -- Come the Time of Proof -- Euclid -- Science and Technology -- Great Achievement Assured -- 3 Men of the World -- Plato -- Teleology: the Best of all Possible Worlds -- Atomism: Let us Trace the Pattern -- No Slight or Trivial Influence -- Aristotle: The Master of Those who Know -- The Terrestrial Realm -- The Heavens -- Speculations Upon Matter -- Aristotle and Qualities -- Explanations -- Direction of Explanation: Clockwork Lives -- 4 Heavenly Thoughts -- Eudoxus: Thinking Regressively -- Ptolemaic Astronomy -- The Four Seasons -- Revolutionary Thinking -- Modelling the Heavens -- 5 The Origins of the Cosmos and of Life: Consider your Origins -- 6 Medicine and the Life Sciences -- Galen -- Ancient Thought on Blood -- Aristotle and Biology: Biology's Beginnings -- Embryology and Species -- Taxonomy -- 7 Later Greek Science: After Aristotle -- Epicurus and Epicureanism: on the Nature of Things -- Stoics: the Active and the Passive -- Archimedes -- Eratosthenes -- Hero and his Engine -- The Origins of Alchemy and Astrology -- The Decline of Greek Science? All Good Things Must Come to an End -- The Creation of Science -- Appendices -- Glossary of Terms -- Timeline of Ancient Greek Philosopher-scientists -- Further Reading.