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What did the Romans know about their world? Quite a lot, as Daryn Lehoux makes clear in this fascinating and much-needed contribution to the history and philosophy of ancient science. Lehoux contends that even though many of the Romans’ views about the natural world have no place in modern science—the umbrella-footed monsters and dog-headed people that roamed the earth and the stars that foretold human destinies—their claims turn out not to be so radically different from our own. Lehoux draws up

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Author

Daryn Lehoux

Publisher

The University of Chicago Press; University of Chicago Press

Published

2012

Language

EN

ISBN

9780226471143

Category

history

Subjects

Science, Rome, History

Updated

2026-03-25