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Review title: The Ancient Age of Reason
Product review: This book has two outstanding strengths:First, its argument: That the Hellenistic era (ca. 330-30 BCE) saw a flowering of science that outstripped anything before - and for 1500 years after. Lucio Russo is convincing in that - even if he carries it sometimes too far (Darwinian theories, for example). His notion of "real science" combines an abstract model with a logical apparatus that can develop that model into novel (but real) consequences.Second, its style: Russo describes mathematics, the core of Hellenistic science, in a way that should be comprehensible to both scientific and literary readers. Histories of science are seldom so artful.These inherent virtues are reasons enough to read this book. Its relevance to today is something for readers to discover for themselves.
