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The article discusses methodology of ancient natural science based on the analysis of the fragment 29cd from Plato's "Timaeus" and Comments on this fragment, which were written by Proclus Dyadochus. Particular focus is on the Plato's views on science as "plausible myth", "probable narration", εἰκότα μῦθον. The authors also consider the concept of διάνοια, "dianoetic virtue" in the "Nicomachean Ethics" by Aristotle and Aquinas' Comments on fragments of the"Nicomachean Ethics" where "dianoetic virtues" are examined. Scientific and medical treatises of the great ancient physician Claudius Galen are defined in this article as universal standard of scientific knowledge. The second chapter of the Galen's Treatise "Περι των Іπποκράτογς και Πλατωνος δογματων" is seen in more detail so that the main constituents of the Galen's scientific method get a full coverage

A study of the problems which face the prospective authors of a survey or the present trends of res in the soc sci's. The choice of disciplines to be covered by the report & their classification will be more difficult than in the case of the natural sci's because of the many cases of interdisciplinary res. The importance of methodological trends is emphasized. Some proposals are forwarded re the collection of material, the drafting of synthetic texts, & the revision of the initial drafts are presented. Finally a few recommendations are made to states, nat'l, or internat'l org's active in the field of soc scis. AA.

Cover -- Title -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1 Worlds visible and invisible -- The wisdom of the world -- The three senses -- Words and things -- 2 Sensible signs and spoken words -- The ascendency of the physical -- The discovery of nature -- Reading nature: the whole and the parts -- Restoring lost likenesses -- 3 The two reformations -- Aristotle and the encyclopaedias -- Texts and the empirical world -- New worlds -- Corrupt texts and reformed religion -- The literal sense and the material world -- 4 Re-reading the two books -- Genesis and history -- Modifications of the literal: typology and accommodation -- The cosmology of Moses -- The science of the last things -- 5 The purpose of nature -- The ends of the creation -- Divine designs and human utilities -- The centre of the universe -- The natural world and the moral order -- God and the book of nature -- 6 Eden restored -- Paradise within -- The fall -- The deluge and confusion of tongues -- Reversing the curse -- Replanting the garden -- Learning the language of nature -- Conclusion -- References -- Index