The origin of the history of science in classical antiquity /
Presents a comprehensive study of what remains of the writings of Aristotle's student Eudemus of Rhodes on the history of the exact sciences. This work presents an analysis of the trends in Presocratic, Sophistic and Platonic thought that contributed to the development of the history of science...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English Russian |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
2006.
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| Series: | Peripatoi ;
Bd. 19. |
| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=174324 |
Table of Contents:
- Introduction : Greek science and its historiography
- Ch. 1. In search of the first discoverers : Greek heurematography and the origin of the history of science
- Ch. 2. Science as [techne] : theory and history
- Ch. 3. Science in the Platonic Academy
- Ch. 4. The historiographical project of the Lyceum
- Ch. 5. The history of geometry
- Ch. 6. The history of arithmetic and the origin of number
- Ch. 7. The history of astronomy
- Ch. 8. Historiography of science after Eudemus : a brief outline.