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Kommentar zur Physik des Aristoteles.
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ISBN: 9789604041244 Year: 2008 Publisher: Athina Akadimia Athinon

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Aetna and the moon : explaining nature in ancient Greece and Rome.
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ISBN: 9780870711961 0870711962 Year: 2008 Publisher: Corvallis Oregon State university press

The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity
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ISBN: 1282193619 9786612193613 3110194325 3110179660 9783110179668 9783110179668 9783110194326 9781282193611 6612193611 Year: 2008 Volume: 19 Publisher: Berlin Boston

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Dies ist die erste umfassende Untersuchung der Schriften des Aristoteles-Schülers Eudemos von Rhodos über die Geschichte der mathematischen Wissenschaften. Die Fragmente dieser drei Schriften sind unabdingbar für unser Verständnis von Inhalt, Form und Zielen der peripatetischen Historiographie der Wissenschaft. Zunächst diskutiert Zhmud diejenigen Züge des vorsokratischen, sophistischen und platonischen Denkens, die zur Entwicklung einer Wissenschaftsgeschichte beigetragen haben. Im zweiten Teil analysiert er eingehend Eudemos' Schriften und ihre Beziehungen zur wissenschaftlichen Literatur seiner Zeit, zur aristotelischen Philosophie und zu anderen historiographischen Genres am Lyzeum: zur Biographie und zur naturphilosophischen und medizinischen Doxographie. Obwohl es der peripatetischen Wissenschaftsgeschichte nicht gelang, sich als ein kontinuierliches Genre zu behaupten, trug sie maßgeblich sowohl zur Entstehung einer mittelalterlichen arabischen Historiographie der Wissenschaft als auch zur Entwicklung dieses Fachgebiets in Europa vom 16. bis zum 18. Jahrhundert bei. This is the first comprehensive study of what remains of the writings of Aristotle's student Eudemus of Rhodes on the history of the exact sciences. These fragments are crucial to our understanding of the content, form, and goal of the Peripatetic historiography of science. The first part of the book presents an analysis of those trends in Presocratic, Sophistic and Platonic thought that contributed to the development of the history of science. The second part provides a detailed study of Eudemus' writings in their relationship with the scientific literature of his time, Aristotelian philosophy and the other historiographic genres practiced at the Lyceum: biography, medical and natural-philosophical doxography. Although Peripatetic historiography of science failed in establishing itself as a continuous genre, it greatly contributed both to the birth of the Arabic medieval historiography of science and to the development of this genre in Europe in the 16th-18th centuries.


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The encyclopedia of ancient natural scientists : the Greek tradition and its many heirs
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ISBN: 9780415340205 9780203462737 9781134297986 9781134298020 9781134298037 9780415692632 0203462734 0415340209 Year: 2008 Publisher: New York Routledge

Mechanics and natural philosophy before the scientific revolution
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ISBN: 1281180076 9786611180072 1402059671 1402059663 9048174910 Year: 2008 Volume: v. 254 Publisher: Dordrecht : Springer,

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Modern mechanics was forged in the seventeenth century from materials inherited from Antiquity and transformed in the period from the Middle Ages through to the sixteenth century. These materials were transmitted through a number of textual traditions and within several disciplines and practices, including ancient and medieval natural philosophy, statics, the theory and design of machines, and mathematics. This volume deals with a variety of moments in the history of mechanics when conflicts arose within one textual tradition, between different traditions, or between textual traditions and the wider world of practice. Its purpose is to show how the accommodations sometimes made in the course of these conflicts ultimately contributed to the emergence of modern mechanics. The first part of the volume is concerned with ancient mechanics and its transformations in the Middle Ages; the second part with the reappropriation of ancient mechanics and especially with the reception of the Pseudo-Aristotelian Mechanica in the Renaissance; and the third and final part, with early-modern mechanics in specific social, national, and institutional contexts.


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Explaining the Cosmos
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ISBN: 1282458280 9786612458286 1400827450 9781400827459 Year: 2008 Publisher: Princeton Princeton University Press

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Explaining the Cosmos is a major reinterpretation of Greek scientific thought before Socrates. Focusing on the scientific tradition of philosophy, Daniel Graham argues that Presocratic philosophy is not a mere patchwork of different schools and styles of thought. Rather, there is a discernible and unified Ionian tradition that dominates Presocratic debates. Graham rejects the common interpretation of the early Ionians as "material monists" and also the view of the later Ionians as desperately trying to save scientific philosophy from Parmenides' criticisms. In Graham's view, Parmenides plays a constructive role in shaping the scientific debates of the fifth century BC. Accordingly, the history of Presocratic philosophy can be seen not as a series of dialectical failures, but rather as a series of theoretical advances that led to empirical discoveries. Indeed, the Ionian tradition can be seen as the origin of the scientific conception of the world that we still hold today.

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Philosophie ancienne. --- Sciences anciennes. --- Sciences --- Philosophy, Ancient. --- Science, Ancient. --- Science --- Natural science --- Natural sciences --- Science of science --- Ancient philosophy --- Greek philosophy --- Philosophy, Greek --- Philosophy, Roman --- Roman philosophy --- Ancient science --- Science, Primitive --- Histoire. --- History. --- History --- Pre-Socratic philosophers. --- Pre-Socratics --- Presocratic philosophers --- Presocratics --- Philosophers --- Absolute (philosophy). --- Alcmaeon of Croton. --- Alexander of Aphrodisias. --- Allusion. --- Ambiguity. --- Analogy. --- Anaxagoras. --- Anaximander. --- Anaximenes. --- Antidosis. --- Apeiron (cosmology). --- Aristotle. --- Atomism. --- Causality. --- Chemical element. --- Chemical formula. --- Classical element. --- Coeus. --- Concept. --- Contradiction. --- Cosmogony. --- Cratylus. --- Crius. --- Cronus. --- Democritus. --- Diogenes of Apollonia. --- Dualism (philosophy of mind). --- Dualism. --- Eleatics. --- Emergence. --- Empedocles. --- Empirical evidence. --- Essence. --- Existence. --- Explanandum. --- Explanation. --- Explication. --- Fallacy. --- First principle. --- Four causes. --- Greek Philosophy. --- Hippias. --- Hypothesis. --- Ignoratio elenchi. --- Inference. --- Inquiry. --- Instance (computer science). --- Isocrates. --- Leucippus. --- Lucretius. --- Material monism. --- Meteorology. --- Monism. --- Multitude. --- Mythology. --- Natural philosophy. --- Natural science. --- On Generation and Corruption. --- On the Heavens. --- Ontology. --- Ousia. --- Parmenides. --- Peripatetic school. --- Phenomenon. --- Philolaus. --- Philosopher. --- Philosophical theory. --- Philosophy. --- Pre-Socratic philosophy. --- Premise. --- Principle. --- Process philosophy. --- Prose. --- Pythagoreanism. --- Quantity. --- Rarefaction. --- Reality. --- Reason. --- Science. --- Scientific method. --- Scientist. --- Sophist. --- Substance theory. --- Teleology. --- Test theory. --- The Philosopher. --- Theogony. --- Theophrastus. --- Theoretical physics. --- Theory of Forms. --- Theory of change. --- Theory. --- Thomas Kuhn. --- Thought. --- Timaeus (dialogue). --- Trace Amounts. --- Treatise. --- Unity of opposites. --- World view. --- Xenophanes.

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