Liba Taub

Liba Taub is Director and Curator of the Whipple Museum of the History of Science and Reader in History and Philosophy of Science at University of Cambridge. Her research and scholarship focus on the history of early science and the history of scientific instruments. She is the author of Ancient Meteorology and Ptolemy's Universe: The Natural Philosophical and Ethical Foundations of Ptolemy's Astronomy.

Books by this Author

Aetna and the Moon

Classical authors used both prose and poetry to explore and explain the natural world. In Aetna and the Moon, Liba Taub examines the variety of...

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