Hellenistic science and culture in the last three centuries

This book is divided into two parts:
Part One deals with the third century B.C. As the empire of Alexander the Great disintegrated, a Greek intellectual hegemony envolved, grounded in the work of Ptolemy and Euclid, Aristarchos and Archimides, Eratosthenes and other thinkers Sarton outlines advances in geography and chronology, physiscs, technology, anatomy, medicine, philosophy and religion, language and more.
Part two takes up the last two centuries before the Christian era. Beginning with the social background of the Hellenistic world, the author illuminates the relationship between Greek religion and Hebrew scripture, the development of Athenian scvhools of philosophy, and the astronomical theories of Hipparchos, as well as documenting advances in mathematics, physics and technology, natural history, medicine, geography, philology, art and literature.