Contents -- Works, quoted by the abbreviated title -- Introduction -- 1. The historiography of science in the 16th-18th centuries -- 2. The historiography of science in Antiquity -- 3. Greek notions of science and progress -- Chapter 1 -- 1. Prõtoi eûretaí: gods, heroes, men -- 2. Heurematography and the 'Greek miracle' -- 3. Inventors and imitators. Greece and the Orient -- Chapter 2 -- 1. The invention of técnh -- 2. The theory of the origin of medicine -- 3. Archytas and Isocrates -- 4. Why is mathematics useful? -- 5. From 'progress' to 'perfection' -- Chapter 3 -- 1. Plato as architect of mathematical sciences? -- 2. The Catalogue of geometers -- 3. Mathematics at the Academy -- 4. Plato on science and scientific directorship -- 5. The theory and history of science in the Academy -- Chapter 4 -- 1. Greek science in the late fourth century BC -- 2. Aristotelian theory of science and the Peripatetic historiographical project -- 3. History in the Lyceum -- 4. The aims of the historiographical project -- 5. Eudemus' history of science -- 6. Doxography: between systematics and history -- Chapter 5 -- 1. Eudemus of Rhodes -- 2. The History of Geometry: on a quest for new evidence -- 3. The Catalogue of geometers: from Eudemus to Proclus -- 4. Early Greek geometry according to Eudemus -- 5. Teleological progressivism -- Chapter 6 -- 1. The fragment of Eudemus' History of Arithmetic -- 2. Aristoxenus: On Arithmetic -- 3. The origin of number -- Chapter 7 -- 1. Eudemus' History of Astronomy and its readers -- 2. Thales and Anaximander -- 3. Physical and mathematical astronomies -- 4. Anaxagoras. The Pythagoreans -- 5. Oenopides of Chios -- 6. From Meton to Eudoxus. 'Saving the phenomena' -- Chapter 8 -- 1. The decline of the historiography of science -- 2. Biography and doxography -- 3. From inventio to translatio artium: scheme and reality.

Sources -- Bibliography -- General index.