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Author : Ricardo Salles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 51,9 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108836579
Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.
Author : Richard D. Mohr
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 212 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-21
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004320642
Author : Phillip Sidney Horky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108423649
Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.
Author : Dirk L. Couprie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441981165
In Miletus, about 550 B.C., together with our world-picture cosmology was born. This book tells the story. In Part One the reader is introduced in the archaic world-picture of a flat earth with the cupola of the celestial vault onto which the celestial bodies are attached. One of the subjects treated in that context is the riddle of the tilted celestial axis. This part also contains an extensive chapter on archaic astronomical instruments. Part Two shows how Anaximander (610-547 B.C.) blew up this archaic world-picture and replaced it by a new one that is essentially still ours. He taught that the celestial bodies orbit at different distances and that the earth floats unsupported in space. This makes him the founding father of cosmology. Part Three discusses topics that completed the new picture described by Anaximander. Special attention is paid to the confrontation between Anaxagoras and Aristotle on the question whether the earth is flat or spherical, and on the battle between Aristotle and Heraclides Ponticus on the question whether the universe is finite or infinite.
Author : Wolfgang Smith
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 260 pages
File Size : 47,6 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UVA:X004824209
Wolfgang Smith, drawing upon a rare combination of expertise in mathematical physics, philosophy and traditional metaphysics, has written extensively on interdisciplinary problems relating to these respective domains. The present book has evolved out of a key ontological recognition consonant with time-honored metaphysical doctrine. In keeping with a realist view of cognitive sense perception, it rejects the Cartesian dichotomy of res extensa and res cogitans, and obviates what Whitehead referred to as the fallacy of bifurcation. In an earlier book (The Quantum Enigma, 1995) the author established two facts: first, that a consistent non-bifurcationist interpretation of physics can be formulated; and second, that this eliminates at one stroke the various forms of "quantum paradox" resulting from superposition and the so-called collapse of the state vector. The crucial ingredient of the new approach, mandated by the aforesaid recognition, is an ontological distinction between the physical domain, accessed via measurement, and the corporeal, accessed by way of cognitive sense perception. In the present book the author extends this metaphysically-based interpretation from fundamental physics to contemporary cosmology. With the aid of a few additional conceptions consonant, say, with the Thomistic doctrine-such as the concept of what he terms "the extrapolated universe," or the notion of "vertical causation" relating to intelligent design-he treats a broad range of issues from a unified metaphysical point of view. Not surprisingly, his conclusions tent to be radically at odds with the prevailing interpretations of scientific data, regardless of whether these are based upon naturalistic or scientistically theistic presuppositions. The author's approach may thus be characterized as the third alternative: the sole option, it appears, consistent with the Aristotelian and Platonist traditions, and with the wisdom of Christianity, as delineated especially in the Patristic writings.
Author : Plato,Francis M. Cornford
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
Page : 398 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1997-01-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0872203867
A reprint of the Routledge edition of 1935.
Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 327 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 2008-01-03
Category : History
ISBN : 9781849667920
Ancient Greek Cosmogony is the first detailed, comprehensive account of ancient Greek theories of the origins of the world. It covers the period from 800 BC to 600 AD, beginning with myths concerning the creation of the world; the cosmogonies of all the major Greek and Roman thinkers; and the debate between Greek philosophical cosmogony and early Christian views. It argues that Greeks formulated many of the perennial problems of philosophical cosmogony and produced philosophically and scientifically interesting answers. The atomists argued that our world was one among many worlds, and came about by chance. Plato argued that it is unique, and the product of design. Empedocles and the Stoics, in quite different ways, argued that there was an unending cycle whereby the world is generated, destroyed and generated again. Aristotle on the other hand argued that there was no such thing as cosmogony, and the world has always existed. Reactions to, and developments of, these ideas are traced through Hellenistic philosophy and the debates in early Christianity on whether God created the world from nothing or from some pre-existing chaos. The book examines issues of the origins of life and the elements for the ancient Greeks, and how the cosmos will come to an end. It argues that there were several interesting debates between Greek philosophers on the fundamental principles of cosmogony, and that these debates were influential on the development of Greek philosophy and science.
Author : Nicholas Rescher
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 131 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : 3110328798
The six studies comprising this volume deal with some fundamental issues in early Greek thought: cosmic evaluation in Anaximander, the theory of opposites from the Pre-Socratics to Plato and Aristotle, thought experimentation in Pre-Socratic thought, the origins of Greek Scepticism among the Sophisists, the prehistory of "Buridan's Ass" speculation, and the role of esthesis in Aristotle's theory of science. In each case the early discussion seeks to show how certain ideas bore unexpected fruit during the subsequent development of philosophical thought.
Author : Rosemary Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 216 pages
File Size : 44,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134524112
The popularity of Stephen Hawking's work has put cosmology back in the public eye. The question of how the universe began, and why it hangs together, still puzzles scientists. Their puzzlement began two and a half thousand years ago when Greek philosophers first 'looked up at the sky and formed a theory of everything.' Though their solutions are little credited today, the questions remain fresh. The early Greek thinkers struggled to come to terms with and explain the totality of their surroundings; to identitify an original substance from which the universe was compounded; and to reconcile the presence of balance and proportion with the apparent disorder of the universe. Rosemary Wright examines the cosmological theories of the `natural philosophers' from Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes to Plato, the Stoics and the NeoPlatonists. The importance of Babylonian and Egyptian forerunners is emphasised. Cosmology in Antiquity is a comprehensive introduction to the cosmological thought of antiquity, the first such survey since Neugebauer's work of 1962.
Author : Timothy David Barnes
Publisher : Academic Printing and Publishing
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Astronomy, Ancient
ISBN : UCSD:31822021055561
Papers from a conference held in Toronto in April 1994, marking 150 years of the teaching of classics at the University of Toronto.
Author : Daniel W. Graham
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 40,7 Mb
Release : 2009-11-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781400827459
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.
Author : Andrew Gregory
Publisher : Icon Books
Page : 182 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2017-02-02
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781785781926
Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to develop a 'scientific' attitude to the natural world at all is one of the true wonders of human thought. Eureka! shows how, free from intellectual and religious dogma, these early thinkers rejected myths and capricious gods and, in distinguishing between the natural and supernatural, effectively discovered nature. Andrew Gregory, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London, unravels the genesis of science in this fascinating exploration of the origins of Western civilisation, and our desire for a rational, legitimating system of the world.
Author : M. R. Wright
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415121833
Brings together recent evidence on the topic
Author : John Fiske
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 522 pages
File Size : 49,7 Mb
Release : 1874
Category : Cosmology
ISBN : UOM:39015062919462
Author : Dirk L. Couprie
Publisher : Springer
Page : 361 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 2018-11-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319970523
This book is a sequel to Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology (Springer 2011). With the help of many pictures, the reader is introduced into the way of thinking of ancient believers in a flat earth. The first part offers new interpretations of several Presocratic cosmologists and a critical discussion of Aristotle’s proofs that the earth is spherical. The second part explains and discusses the ancient Chinese system called gai tian. The last chapter shows that, inadvertently, ancient arguments and ideas return in the curious modern flat earth cosmologies.