Presents a survey of ancient natural science, from its beginnings through the end of Late Antiquity. This title explains many Greek (or Latin) terms difficult to translate. It also describes the many locales from which scientists came. It shows the rapid rise in the practice of science in the 5th century BCE and rapid decline after Hadrian. 'There is nothing even remotely as good ...this is of immense usefulness for an individual or a library.' - CHOICE 'Its extent and arrangement, from the introduction through the pages of bibliography, the encyclopaedia proper with its illustrations of portraits, busts and geometrical and astronomical diagrams, to the copious classifications, indexes and finding aids, point to much painstaking labour and careful planning. This is ? a work of immense scholarship.' - Reference Reviews