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In October 2003, Emory University (Atlanta, Georgia) hosted a conference organized by the editor of the present volume, Philippa Lang: 'Reinventions: Hellenistic and Early Roman Science' (http://www. classics.emory.edu/events/reinventions.htm).The conference, which I attended as an audience member, provided the opportunity-too rare in the United States-for the gathering of scholars working on the history of ancient science.This conference was of particular value, as it encouraged research in a rather under-studied period that was crucial in preserving older knowledge and in formulating new.Thus, it was in this period that the ancient sciences and philosophyand their many subfields and sects-re-defined and re-invented themselves in relation to one another and to the authoritative figures and practices of the past.Three of the five essays of the present volume were given at the conference, and two are new contributions by conference speakers.Sir Geoffrey Lloyd gave the keynote address, which is the first essay of the volume: 'New Issues in the History of .As many readers of Aestimatio will know, for more than a decade Lloyd has devoted himself to the study of Chinese and of Chinese science.Here he calls for a 'genuinely comparative' and 'ecumenical' approach to the history of science that is alert to the differences in the development of scientific traditions in different cultures.It is only by this means, Lloyd contends, that scholars can test their accounts of how and why science developed as it did in their 'home' culture, and avoid the temptation to view such developments as inevitable.
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