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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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés Ruso |
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Berlin ; New York :
Walter de Gruyter,
2006.
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| Colección: | Peripatoi ;
Bd. 19. |
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- 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.