
In describing the origins of modern "science", historians often fail to appreciate or misread how the ancients understood and used significant expressions of "natural knowledge". Few read the story of the cyclops, for example, as useful advice about where to travel and settle...

n describing the origins of modern "science," historians often fail to appreciate or misread how the ancients understood and used significant expressions of "natural knowledge." Few read the story of the cyclops, for example, as useful advice about where to travel and settle...