Professor Sir Geoffrey E. R. Lloyd (born 1933) is a Historian of Ancient Science and Medicine at the University of Cambridge. He is the Senior Scholar in Residence at the Needham Research Institute in Cambridge. The University of Cambridge, located in Cambridge, England, is the second-oldest university in the English-speaking world. ... The Needham Research Institute or NRI is one of the worlds leading centres for the study of the history of East Asian science, technology and medicine. ...

Career

The son of a physician, for a time Lloyd considered studying medicine, but turned instead to classics and the history of ancient science. His approach to the history of science was strongly influenced by his studies of anthropology, which led him to take a broader approach to the history of science and to place ancient investigations of nature securely in their cultural context. A recurring element of his approach was the consideration of how political discourse influenced the forms of scientific discourse and demonstration in Ancient Greece. His more recent work has taken a comparative approach, considering how the different political cultures of ancient China and Greece influenced the different forms of scientific discourse in those cultures.

Recognitions and Awards

Professor Lloyd was elected a Fellow of the British Academy in 1983 and received the George Sarton Medal of the History of Science Society in 1987. He was elected to Honorary Foreign Membership of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 1995, to the International Academy for the History of Science in 1997, and was knighted for 'services to the history of thought' in 1997. There are very few or no other articles that link to this one. ... The History of Science Society (HSS) is the primary professional society for the academic study of the history of science, founded in 1924 by George Sarton. ... The House of the Academy, Cambridge, Massachusetts. ...

Publications

• 1966. Polarity and Analogy: Two Types of Argumentation in Early Greek Thought. Cambridge Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., ISBN 0-521-05578-4; reprint Bristol Classical Press, 1922. ISBN 0872201406.
• 1968. Aristotle: The Growth and Structure of his Thought. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr., ISBN 0-521-09456-9.
• 1970. Early Greek Science: Thales to Aristotle. New York: W.W. Norton & Co. ISBN 393-00583-6.
• 1973. Greek Science after Aristotle. New York: W.W. Norton & Co., 1973. ISBN 0-393-00780-4.
• 1978. Aristotle on Mind and the Senses (Cambridge Classical Studies). Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-521-21669-9.
• 1978. with J. Chadwick. Hippocratic Writings (Penguin Classics). Penguin Books. ISBN 0140444513.
• 1979. Magic Reason and Experience: Studies in the Origin and Development of Greek Science. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-521-29641-2.
• 1983. Science, Folklore and Ideology. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-521-27307-2.
• 1987. The Revolutions of Wisdom: Studies in the Claims and Practice of Ancient Greek Science (Sather Classical Lectures, 52). Berkeley: Univ. of California Pr., ISBN 0-520-06742-8.
• 1990. Demystifying Mentalities. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-521-36680-1.
• 1991. Methods and Proplems in Greek Science. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-521-39762-6.
• 1996. Adversaries and Authorities: Investigations into ancient Greek and Chinese Science. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-521-55695-3.
• 1996. Aristotelian Explorations. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-521-55619-8.
• 2002. The Ambitions of Curiosity: Understanding the World in Ancient Greece and China. Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-521-81542-8.
• 2002. with Nathan Sivin. The Way and the Word: Science and Medicine in Early China and Greece. New Haven: Yale Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-300-10160-0.
• 2003. In the Grip of Disease: Studies in the Greek Imagination. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-19-927587-4.
• 2004. Ancient Worlds, Modern Reflections: Philosophical Perspectives on Greek and Chinese Science and Culture. New York: Oxford Univ. Pr. ISBN 0-19-928870-4.
• 2005. The Delusions of Invulnerability: Wisdom and Morality in Ancient Greece, China and Today. London: Duckworth. ISBN 0-7156-3386-4.
• 2006. Principles And Practices in Ancient Greek And Chinese Science (Variorum Collected Studies Series). Aldershot: Ashgate. ISBN 0-86078-993-4.

See also

History of science in Classical Antiquity The Ptolemaic system of celestial motion, from Harmonia Macrocosmica, 1661. ...

References

• Lloyd's Biography Page at the Needham Research Institute, Cambridge
• Summary of Interview of Lloyd by Alan Macfarlane 7 June 2005
• Edward Grant. "1987 Sarton Medal Citation." Isis, 79(1988): 243-4.