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The influence of the scientific revolution on everyday life is particularly evident in the changes undergone by cities in the early Hellenistic period.
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Vitruvius, De architectura, II, preface, §§1–4.
Dio Chrysostom, Orationes, xxxii,40:1–5.
Our main source about Hellenistic Alexandria is a long description by Strabo (Geographia, XVII, i §§6–10), who visited the city at the beginning of the Roman occupation.
See, for example, Aristotle, Politica, VII, 1326a–b.
Some authors of books on fishing are cited by Athenaeus (Deipnosophistae, I, 13b–c). The only one that has come down us is by Oppian of Cilicia.
Thucydides, Historiae, I,lxxi §3.
Seneca, Naturales quaestiones, VII,xxv §§3–5. This passage is often cited, but usually (and incongruously) as if reflecting Seneca’s own thoughts on science.
Aristotle, Categoriae, x,13a:35–36.
Diogenes Laertius, Vitae philosophorum, VII §§94–102.
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Russo, L. (2004). Some Other Aspects of the Scientific Revolution. In: The Forgotten Revolution. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-18904-3_8
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