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The Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy.
Sylvia Berryman argues against the assumption that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Leiden :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Cover; Half-title; Title; Copyright; Contents; Illustrations; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: Mechanics and the mechanical: some problems of terminology; The critics of prevailing usage; Some candidate definitions of the 'mechanistic'; Chapter 2: 'Mechanistic' thought before mechanics?; Divine versus human technology; Working artifacts before the fourth century; Ancient atomism and the machine analogy; The 'Shortfalls' of Ancient Technology; The 'exclusion' of ancient mechanics; 'Against nature'; Art versus nature; Wonder versus nature; Chapter 3: Mechanics in the fourth century.
- The scope of ancient Greek mechanicsBalancing and equilibrium; Lifting the greater weight with the lesser force; Hurling armaments; Imitating living beings; Lifting water; Timepieces; Sphere-making and models of the heavens; Archytas and the foundation of mechanics; Aristotle's 'mechanics' of motion; Conclusion; Chapter 4: The theory and practice of ancient Greek mechanics; The Aristotelian Mechanica; Ctesibius; Archimedes; Philo of Byzantium; Vitruvius; Hero of Alexandria; Pappus of Alexandria; Models of the heavens; Chapter 5: Ancient Greek mechanics continued: the case of pneumatics.
- Pneumatic technology in the post-classical periodAncient Greek pneumatic theory; The status of mechanics revisited: natural or artificial?; Chapter 6: The philosophical reception of mechanics in.antiquity; Mechanical theory in natural philosophy; The theory of pneumatics in natural philosophy; Pneumatics and medical theory; Working artifacts and the notion of a self-mover; Mechanical analogies for the functioning of organisms; Working artifacts in astronomy; Mechanical analogies in cosmology; Conclusion; Appendix: Ancient mechanics and the mechanical in the seventeenth century.
- The discipline of mechanics and the 'mechanization' of philosophyThe mechanical arts and the 'mechanization' of philosophy; Bibliography; Index of passages; General index.