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G. E. R. Lloyd
G. E. R. Lloyd
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Expanding Horizons in the History of Science , pp. 148 - 156
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Index

abnormality 107, 113
abstraction 37, 48, 55, 64, 90, 120–121
accountability 54, 82n.7, 86n.1
Achuar 26, 133
activity 117, 121, 126
actors’ versus observers’ categories 2, 35, 41, 89, 94, 130
advisers 52
aesthetics 33
agency 6, 24, 114, 116, 130
agriculture 32
air 97–100, 102, 118–119, 122–123
Alcmaeon 117
algorithms 37
alphabet 9, 46
Amazonia 6, 26, 45, 88, 133
ambiguity 11, 48, 68–69, 82, 97
ambivalence 11, 64, 94
America 32, 90
anachronism 98, 122
analogism 46, 104–105, 126
analogy 15, 19, 62, 80–81, 83, 104, 112, 123, 126, 130
anatomy 33, 42, 110, 116–118, 120, 122, 124
Anaximander 97–98
Anaximenes 97–98
ancestors 88–89, 126–127
animals 18, 25, 28–29, 42, 46, 76, 80–81, 84–85, 91, 95, 105, 114, 115–116, 120, 125–126, 133
cognitive capacities of 34, 126
taxonomy 17, 41, 49, 79–80
animism 18, 26, 46, 95, 115
Antikythera mechanism 63n.6
Apollonius of Perga 58
appearances 18, 66, 78
apprenticeship 122
appropriateness 14, 18, 43, 57, 111 see also felicity
approximations 37, 60–61, 65n.9, 66
Araweté 26–28, 133
Archimedes 43, 69, 134
argument 13, 36, 40, 42–43, 57
Aristarchus 44, 53n.9
Aristides, Aelius 111n.7
Aristophanes 52n.8
Aristotle 11, 14–20, 23, 29, 33, 36–38, 40, 42, 45, 50, 75, 79–82, 84, 96–97, 99–103, 117–118, 120–121, 126, 130
art 32
Artemisia annua 111
arteries 110, 119, 121
ascetics 108
Asclepius 110–111
assemblies 42, 53
Assyrians 32
astronomy 1, 32, 41, 43, 57–65, 71–74, 93, 121
Athens 32, 75, 114
atomism 51, 99–102, 117
Atran, S. 49
audiences 40, 42, 53, 91, 97–98
Austin, J. L. 23
Australia 46
authority 10, 42, 54, 57, 91–92, 113–114
autocrats 51, 53–54
axioms 38–40, 57, 79, 81, 83–84
Babylonia 4, 6, 32, 34, 37, 51, 108, 109n.3
Bacon, F. 5
Barasana 88–89
Barotse 36, 82n.8
barter 36
beauty 57, 61, 77–78
beer 26–27, 133
behaviour 18, 33, 47, 67, 90–91, 101, 112–113, 131
Big Bang 55, 91
binaries 12, 18, 94
biology 1, 6, 29, 33, 55, 93, 133
biomedicine 106–108, 111, 113–114
blockage 110, 123
blood 26–28, 80, 101, 110, 116, 118–119, 122–123, 125
Bloom, A. H. 48
body 6, 18, 26–27, 29, 95, 98, 101, 110, 115–119, 123–127
body politic 112
brain 10, 47, 117–118, 127
Bruno, Giordano 53n.9
Caelius Aurelianus 107
calendar 51
Candea, M. 24, 29
canons 10, 47, 83, 123
case histories 110, 122–123
categories 13, 17–18, 20, 24–25, 66, 87–88, 99
causes 1–2, 10, 14, 24, 44–56, 64, 96–97, 100–101, 107, 109–111, 121, 130–131
final 101
Celsus 119n.2
ceremonies 14, 24
certainty 21, 27, 39–40, 42, 57, 85, 86
challenges 51, 92
Chang, H. 103
change 62, 98, 104–105
Changeux, J.-P. 47
character 61, 87, 110, 121
charlatans 109
chemistry 5, 93, 96, 103
children 76
Christianity 14, 16–17, 25, 28, 51n.6, 69, 93, 119n.2
Chunyu Yi 109, 110n.5, 122
circle-circumference ratio 37
citizens 52–53
city states 11, 52
clarity 75, 82–84
classification 1, 19, 41, 49, 79–82, 134 see also taxonomy
Cleanthes 53n.9
climate 45
cognition 7, 27, 33, 54, 101, 115–117, 124, 126, 134
cognitive science 21, 126, 133
colchicum 111
colonialism 32
colour 48–49, 78, 119, 122
commensality 26
comparison 1–4, 14, 22, 24–25, 29–30, 56, 57, 95–96, 104, 114, 133–134
competition 20, 23, 39–40, 48, 57, 98, 108–109
concords 65, 67
conditionals 48
confirmation bias 21
Confucius 29, 52n.7
consciousness 121, 125–126
constitutions, political 52
contemplation 121
continua 12, 51, 101
control centre 115, 117
controversy 11, 42, 100, 110, 118, 126
convention 11, 50, 53, 69, 79
Copernicus 14, 71
corporeal 117, 123
correlations 46, 105n.11
cosmogony 46, 87, 90, 98, 102
cosmology 6, 24, 30, 44–45, 47–51, 54, 56, 65–66, 86–87, 90, 98, 101, 103–104, 129, 131, 133
cosmos 11, 97, 101
counterfactuals 44, 48
counter-intuitive 4, 28, 37, 87, 90, 97
courage 76–77, 85
courts 52–53 see also law courts
creation 99, 102
criminality 107, 113
criteria 29, 57, 62, 81, 84, 89, 105, 107, 113, 132
criticism 9
cross-cultural 1, 6, 22, 25, 56, 87, 89, 95, 110, 114, 115, 130
culture 6, 11–12, 18, 20, 32–33, 43, 69, 90
cure 10, 107–108
curricula 53
customs 11, 50, 69
cycles of creation and destruction 102
dance 88–89
Dao 66
Darwin, C. 81
data 2, 64–68, 79, 81, 95, 100, 106, 131
dead 91, 122, 125
death 110, 116, 124
debate 11, 14, 17, 35, 42–43, 51, 75, 82
deduction 38, 43, 79, 84
definition 75–85, 117, 130
ostensive 78
persuasive 112
Demiurge (Craftsman) 69, 99, 102
democracy 52, 54, 86n.1
Democritus 99
demonstration 1, 10, 16, 38–43, 54, 57, 79, 82, 84, 87, 94
Descartes, R. 39, 116–117
Descola, P. 12, 24, 26–27, 46, 50, 95, 104, 115, 125–127
desire 76, 124–125
determinism 45–46, 50
linguistic 19
Detienne, M. 20, 29, 33n.1, 89
diagnosis 106, 108–110, 113, 122–123
dichotomies 18, 20–21, 79, 116, 123, 130 see also binaries
dictionaries 23, 28n.4
discovery 34, 66, 111, 118, 120
disease 10, 42, 76, 106–114, 120, 123
disorder 50, 107
disputes 42, 50, 109–110, 117, 121
dissection 118–119
dissent 50–51, 54, 92
divinities 10, 61, 90, 97, 121 see also God
DNA 33, 55, 126
Dodds, E. R. 32
domestication 9, 46
Dorze 15–17, 25
drama 33
drugs 111
dynamics 23, 29
earth 44–45, 53n.9, 59–60, 90
as element 98–100, 102
earthquakes 10, 46
eccentric circles 58–61, 63, 71–74
eclipses 2
ecology 45–46, 133
economics 50
education 76–77
efficacy 14, 111
Egypt 32, 34, 37, 51
Einstein, A. 14, 67
elements, physical 95, 98–100, 102–103
elites 47, 132
emotions 33, 109, 115, 124–125
Empedocles 98–99, 120
emperors 42, 51–52
entertainment 53, 87, 91
environment 4, 13, 18, 21, 28, 42, 127, 132–133
Epicureans 69, 117
Epicurus 108n.2, 117
epicycles 58–61, 63–64, 71–74
epistemology 13, 36, 54, 75
equality 77
axiom 38, 79
equations 66–67, 69
equivocation 27
Erasistratus 118–119
error 17, 22, 27–28, 30, 40, 44, 67–68, 132 see also mistakes
Erya 83
ethics 36, 39, 55, 66, 75, 79, 93, 101, 127, 131 see also morality
ethology 133
Euclid 38–39, 81–82, 84
Eurasia 45
Europeans 4, 32, 39
evil 120
evolution 21, 91, 93, 127, 133
exactness 75
exchange, communicative 16, 82
excreta 110
experience 2, 11, 13, 18–22, 29, 67, 104, 126, 131, 134
experiment 1, 5, 34, 41, 67–68
thought 15
expert 10, 37, 51–52, 92, 98, 109, 113–114
explanation 1, 9–10, 13, 44–45, 50, 54–55, 57–58, 64, 83, 96, 101, 129, 131, 134
explicitness 11, 17–19, 43, 93
eye 49, 117
fables 16, 86–87
failure 14, 29, 41, 110, 130, 133
faith 16–17, 28, 127
faithful 28, 111
fallibility 21, 24, 42
falsifiability 91
family resemblances 77–78, 134
farmers 46
‘fast and frugal’ reasoning 21
feelings 25, 108, 113, 121, 124
felicity 14, 18, 43, 111
females 52, 76, 91, 120
fertility 14
fiction 86–89
fire 98–100, 102
fMRI scans 47, 126
force 23, 29
foreclosure 21, 75–85
foreigners 47, 52
Forms, Platonic 58, 77–78
Foucault, M. 107
friends 25, 77
function 101, 115, 123–124, 126
Galen 39, 69–70, 109
Galileo 14, 23, 53n.9
games 76–77, 85
Gellner, E. 1
genealogies 88–89
genes 33
genetics 55, 107
geography 45
geology 5, 133
geometry 36–37, 39, 43, 60–61, 99
ghosts 116, 127
gifts 25
Gigerenzer, G. 21
glass 49
Gluckman, M. 36
Gnau 88–89, 107, 124–125
God 10, 16, 28, 68–70, 87, 97–99, 111, 121, 127
good 120
Goody, J. 9, 46–47, 89n.2, 90n.3
Gorgias 40
government 51–52
Grand Unifying Theory 55
Great Divide 1, 9
Grice, H. P. 23
guesswork 10
gurus 42, 92
habitats 49, 54
Hacking, I. 34, 113
Han Shu 119n.2
happiness 101, 113, 121
harmonics 41, 65
harmonies 65, 103
health 2, 42, 76, 93, 99, 103, 106–114, 123, 125
heart 80, 101, 116–118, 124, 127
heaven 59, 62–63, 69, 90
Hegel 48
hegemony 44, 132
heliocentricity 44
Heraclitus 26n.3, 100n.3, 103
Herophilus 118–119
Hesiod 97, 115
heterodoxy 53
hierarchies 45, 120
Hipparchus 58, 61n.5
Hippocratic writings 10, 99n.2, 109, 120
Holton, G. 67
Homer 115–116, 125
Huainanzi 69n.14, 102, 124n.7
Huangdi neijing (Inner Canon of the Yellow Emperor) 123, 124n.7
Hugh-Jones, S. 46, 88–89
Hui Shi 83n.10
humours 99n.2, 109, 118
hunpo (wraith) 124–125
hunter-gatherers 46
hypotheses 44, 48, 58–60, 62, 66, 79, 100n.2
idealisation 68
ideology 54, 112, 114
illness 106–114, 125
images 15, 46, 114
imagination 87
immortality 28, 40, 116–117, 121
impersonality 91–92
incommensurability 3, 13–14, 23, 26, 37
incomparability 29
inconsistency 36
incontrovertibility 10, 21, 38–40, 42–43, 53, 57, 84
incorporeality 116–117, 123–124
indeterminacy 14, 27
India 4, 21, 32, 35, 37–38, 42, 102n.8, 109
indisputability 38–39, 54
indivisibles 100, 102
infallibility 92, 111, 122
inference 17, 20, 32, 131
innovation 53
institutions 53–54, 56, 92, 131
instrumentalist versus realist interpretation of models 60
instruments 41, 49, 51
intentionality 21
interests 34, 36, 49, 131
interiority 27, 46, 95, 105, 115–117, 125–126
irony 24, 77
irrationality 5, 8, 14–15, 18, 32, 107
jaguars 26–28, 133
Jardine, N. 2
Jesuits 102–103
jing (tracts, canons) 123
Jiuzhang suanshu, see Nine Chapters of Mathematical Procedures
judges 113
juries 113
justice 35, 112
justification 19, 31, 38, 54, 63, 68
Kahneman, D. 21
kin 25, 91, 93
kings 42, 103
knowledge 36–38, 41–42, 51, 77–78, 84, 86, 88, 90–92, 94, 121, 124, 132
Kuhn, T. 3, 14, 23
laboratories 2, 35n.4, 111
Lakatos, I. 66
language 3, 15, 18, 23, 28, 45–49, 125
Chinese 19, 23, 26n.3, 47–48, 82
English 19, 23, 26, 47
French 19, 35, 47, 90
German 19, 35, 47
Gnau 89, 125
Greek 23, 35, 47–48
Latin 23, 48
natural 3, 19, 23, 30, 49, 67, 129–130
law 11, 113–114
of nature 2, 5, 68–69
of non-contradiction 8, 17
law courts 25, 52n.8
lawgivers 68–69, 112
legends 86, 88
Leucippus 99
levers 69
Lévi-Strauss, C. 9, 88, 90
Levinson, S. C. 34, 46
Lévy-Bruhl, L. 8–9
Lewis, G. 88–89, 107, 124–125
life 55, 92, 97, 116
lineage 89
literacy 9, 45–47, 56, 82
literal versus metaphorical 6, 10, 15–16, 18, 21, 23–24, 129–130
Liu Hui 37n.9, 83
livelihoods 52–54
logic 8, 17–18
formal 17–18, 36, 39
logos 86, 94
love 99, 121
Luhrmann, T. M. 113
Lüshi chunqiu 19n.3, 123
macrocosm/microcosm 104–105, 123
madness 107
magic 5, 14
mai (vessels) 122
Maimonides 70n.15
malaria 111, 113
males 76, 91, 120, 132
Marduk 68
marriage 91
mathematics 5–6, 23, 32, 35–42, 65–66, 75, 79, 81
matter 29, 55, 81, 95, 97, 104
Mauss, M. 14, 25
meaning 23–24, 83
measurement 1, 37, 41, 134
‘mechanics’ 41
quantum 55, 104
medicine 6, 32, 106–114
mentality 8–9, 18
Mesopotamia 2, 68
metal 102
metaphor 6, 10, 13, 15–16, 24, 106, 112, 130
metaphysics 68, 77
methods 1–2, 32–34, 41, 55, 75, 79, 118–119, 129, 134
mētis (cunning intelligence) 35n.5
Millikan, R. 67
mind 18, 115–116, 123–127
minerals 2, 41, 81, 100n.4
miracles 70n.15, 87
Greek 11, 32–33, 38, 43
missionaries 47, 93
mistakes 15, 21, 28, 37, 44–45, 96, 127, 132
models, astronomical 58–64, 71–74
Mohists 82–83
monarchy 52–53
monoculturalism 12
mononaturalism 12
moon 58, 60, 63, 67, 71, 121
morality 6, 36, 50, 55, 66, 77–78, 84–85, 91–92, 117, 119, 127
Moses 69, 70n.15
multiculturalism 12
multidimensionality 8, 13, 129–131, 133
multinaturalism 12
music 88, 107
myth 16, 86–94, 97, 116, 124
narratives 86, 88–89, 93
naturalism 27, 46, 95, 105, 115
naturalists 10, 14, 99, 109–110
nature 6, 10–12, 18, 20, 34, 50, 62–63, 69, 79, 81, 101, 109, 113, 130, 134
necessity 38–39, 42, 58, 79, 99
Needham, J. 5, 48, 69n.14, 103n.9
nerves 118, 121
Netz, R. 38, 43, 53
Newton, I. 14, 23, 68n.12
Nine Chapters of Mathematical Procedures 37n.9, 65–66
nomos (law, custom, convention) 11, 69
norms 43, 53, 107, 113
number 36
nurture 11
objectivity 11, 27–28, 41, 77, 92, 112, 114, 134
observation 1–2, 41, 51, 59, 63, 67–68, 100, 110, 118, 134
Ockham 58, 68n.12
oligarchy 52
omnipotence 70n.15
ontology 12–13, 18, 26–27, 29, 36, 45–46, 50, 54, 56, 77–78, 95, 105, 115–117, 125, 128–129
opponents 17, 40, 112
opposites 19, 99
optics 41, 65, 69
oracles 77
orality 36, 51, 82
order 11, 61, 64, 66, 68, 103, 113, 123
organ 80, 116
origins 51, 55, 87, 90, 92, 97
pain 76, 108, 112–113
Papua New Guinea 6, 12, 25n.2, 88
paradigms 13–14, 23
paradox 37, 110
Parmenides 13
pathogens 107, 109, 112–113
pathology 93, 106, 123
patrons 52–53
patterns 36
peer group 92
perception 9, 13, 26–27, 48–49, 80, 124
periodicities 2, 60, 67
periphrasis 48
perlocutionary force 24
person 6, 24, 97
perspectives 16, 24, 29, 133
perspectivism 12, 18, 26–28, 133
persuasion 17, 20, 40, 42, 53, 57, 87
phases, five 51, 102
phenomena 13, 34, 58–59, 62, 66, 68–70, 93, 131
Philoponus 64
philosophy 6, 13, 16, 32–33, 35, 38–40, 42, 54–55, 75, 90, 92–94, 96–97, 108, 120, 130
phlebes (vessels) 118
phlegm 10, 109
phronēsis (practical intelligence) 120–121
physicality 27, 46, 95, 104–105, 115–117, 125–126
physiology 33, 38, 42, 109, 117, 124
planets 58–61, 67, 71–74, 121
plants 2, 29, 41, 80–81, 120, 125, 133
Plato 15, 17, 29–30, 40, 42, 52, 64, 69, 75–80, 84, 86–87, 94, 99, 112, 114, 116–117, 119–120, 124–125
Playfair, J. 5
playfulness 54
pleasure 76
pluralism 54
poetry 16, 93, 97, 116
polemic 16, 109
politics 42, 44–45, 50–54, 56, 76, 91–92, 105, 123
positivism 4, 44, 96, 108
postulates 9, 19, 39, 63–64, 81, 100n.2
potentiality 117, 130
pragmatics 16–17, 130
precession of the equinoxes 61, 64
predator/prey 19n.2, 27
prediction 1, 41, 68, 131, 134
Presocratic philosophers 96–98
prestige 113
probability 21, 68, 94
process 12–13, 68, 100, 102–103, 105, 123–124
Proclus 39, 64, 82n.6
profane 92
progress 30, 32, 35, 44, 55, 108, 132
proof 20, 37–39 see also demonstration
proportions 61, 66, 86, 99
Protagoras 30, 40, 52n.8
providence 69, 77n.1, 101–102
provisionality 4, 24, 26, 84, 96, 132
psychiatry 106–108, 113
psychology 113, 133
Ptolemy 14, 39, 45, 57–70
pulse 109–110
punishment 52, 107, 112, 120
purification 120
purifiers 14, 109
purity 120
Pythagoras 119–120
Pythagoreans 29, 65n.8, 82n.6, 116
qi 氣 (breath/energy) 26n.3, 102, 122
qi 齊 (‘homogenising’) 37n.9, 83
qualifications 92
quantification 34
quantity 36
Quine, W. van O. 14–15
racism 32
ratio 67, 86
rationality 11, 18, 32, 38, 86, 88, 94
reality 13, 18, 36, 68, 78, 129–130, 133
reason 8–9, 19–22, 32, 34, 36, 53, 120–121, 124
reference 14, 27
refraction 65
regimen 10
regularities 11, 64, 66, 68, 70, 110
reincarnation 120
relativism 77
relativity 104
religion 6, 17, 51, 93, 117, 120
Renan, E. 32
reputation 52
research, empirical 34, 120
residue 80
responsibility 51, 113–114, 125
revelation 10
revisability 1, 3–4, 6, 14, 24, 41, 56, 84, 96, 130, 132, 134
revolutions 34
industrial 1, 5n.5, 34, 49
scientific 1, 5n.5, 9, 34, 41, 48–49
rhetoric 40, 42, 82, 112, 114, 130
right/wrong 11, 35, 77
ritual 14, 88–89, 91, 120
rivalry 13, 40, 99–100, 103, 109–110, 121
Rome 34
Rowett, C. 75, 84n.12
rulers 52–53, 123
Ryle, G. 116–117
sacred 88, 92
disease 10
texts 10
sages 66, 92
salvation 120
Sapir, E. 47–48
scepticism 9, 39, 47, 51, 92, 101
schooling 47
seasons 12, 71
second-order 18, 20, 29, 40, 42, 100n.2
self 115
self-consciousness 20, 41
self-evidence 38, 40, 43, 57, 79, 82–84
semantic stretch 16, 21, 85, 130
shamans 27–28, 45–46, 88, 92
shen (spirit) 122–124
Shi (Odes) 83
Shiji 87, 109, 122
Siberia 6, 46
sickness 108, 112
Sima Qian 87
simplicity 57–70
Sivin, N. 48, 105, 123
skills 33–34, 37, 52
slaves 50, 52, 76
sociability 11, 17, 33
society 51, 112–113
Socrates 42, 53, 75–78, 84
solids, regular 99
song 88–89
sophists 40, 52
soul 28, 40, 61, 64, 116–117, 119–120, 123–124, 127
space 23, 34, 36, 45–46, 49
species 19, 76, 79–81
speculation 5, 10, 90, 94, 98–99, 101, 115
speech acts 16
spells 88
Sperber, D. 15, 17, 33
Spinoza, B. 39
spirit 6, 87, 89, 123–125, 127
spontaneity 12
stagnation 123
stars 59
statesmen 40
statics 41
statistics 68, 107
Stoics 36, 100n.3, 103, 108n.2, 117–118
Strathern, M. 12, 24–25
strength 76
styles 34
subjectivity 28, 106, 114, 134
substances 12–13, 100, 102–103, 105, 118
suffering 113
Sumerians 32
sun 58–60, 67, 71, 121
supernatural 10
superstition 5, 14
survival 54
symbols 15, 23, 30
symmetry 118
synonyms 83
Tambiah, S. J. 14, 92
taxes 36
taxonomy 17, 49, 66, 79–80, 105, 107, 109–110
teachers 40, 52–53, 122
technology 14, 32, 41, 45, 49–50, 56
teleology 69–70, 101–102
telescopes 49
temples 111
Tertullian 17, 119n.2
textiles 36
Thales 97–98
theology 38–39
Theophrastus 100–101
theory-laden 44, 132
therapy 41, 108, 118, 122
Thucydides 52
time 23
token/type 76
tolerance 50–51
Tooby, J. 21
torture 108
totemism 18, 46
tradition 54, 80, 120, 134
translation 3, 15, 23–27, 30, 67, 89, 124, 130, 134
transmigration 119–120
treatment, medical 106–108, 110, 112 see also therapy
trial and error 2, 41, 67
truth 10, 37–43, 44–45, 57, 82, 86–87, 89, 94, 127, 129
Masters of 20, 40, 52, 92, 98
Tu Youyou 111
uncertainty 27, 110
unity, psychic 9, 17, 19, 34
universals 49, 75, 115, 133
universe 13, 55, 61, 92
universities 5, 35, 92, 134
univocity 21, 75, 81, 130
Unmoved Movers 121
Upanişads 42
valence 30, 87–88
validity 17, 37–38, 43
values 6–7, 13, 18–19, 28, 43, 55, 61, 66–67, 105, 112, 114, 127, 129, 131–132
veins 110, 118–119, 121
verification 1, 15, 30, 41, 87, 91, 132, 134
Vernant, J.-P. 54, 86n.1
vessels 10, 110, 122
Vidal-Naquet, P. 54, 86n.1
Vilaça, A. 24, 28n.4, 36, 47, 93
virtue 30, 64, 76–78, 84
Viveiros de Castro, E. 12, 18, 24, 26–28
vivisection 118–119
vocabulary 14, 19, 48, 91, 112, 114, 129–130
voting 42, 54
Wagner, R. 12
Wang Mang 119n.2
Wari’ 28n.4, 133
water 26n.3, 97–100, 102–103
well-being 35, 93, 103–104, 106–114, 121
Whewell, W. 5
Whorf, B. L. 47
will 97
wisdom 25, 35, 40, 42, 55, 77, 108
wishful thinking 108
Wittgenstein, L. 26, 76–78
women 76
wood 102
world 8, 12–13, 24, 26, 45–46, 51, 77, 132
Xenophanes 119
Xenophon 75, 77
xin 心 (heart-mind) 123–124
xing 行 (phases) 102–103
yin/yang 51, 66, 102, 122
Zhoubi suanjing 65, 66n.10
Zhuangzi 29
zoology 49, 79, 81
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  • G. E. R. Lloyd, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
  • Book: Expanding Horizons in the History of Science
  • Online publication: 17 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029285.015
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  • G. E. R. Lloyd, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
  • Book: Expanding Horizons in the History of Science
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  • G. E. R. Lloyd, Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
  • Book: Expanding Horizons in the History of Science
  • Online publication: 17 August 2021
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009029285.015
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