The origins of scientific thought : from Anaximander to Proclus : 600 B.C. - 500 A.D. / Giorgio de Santillana.

By:

De Santillana, Giorgio, 1902-1974

Material type:

TextSeries: The Mentor history of scientific thoughPublication details: New York : Mentor, c1961.Description: 320 p. ; 18 cmSubject(s):

Science, Ancient

DDC classification:

001.1

Contents:

Prologue. Of high and far-off times -- Ch. 1. On the nature of things -- Ch. 2. Reason and the vortex -- Ch. 3. The logos in the lightning -- Ch. 4. The power of number -- Ch. 5. The system of the world -- Ch. 6. A universe of rigor -- Ch. 7. Love, strife, and necessity -- Ch. 8. Doctor vs. Medicine man -- Ch. 9. Atoms and the void -- Ch. 10. Man the difficult measure -- Ch. 11. The care of the soul -- Ch. 12. Flight to the Trans-Uranian -- Ch. 13. A tidiness of words -- Ch. 14. Mathematics -- Ch. 15. The main issue in Astronomy -- Ch. 16. On the face in the round of the moon -- Ch. 17. Geography -- Ch. 18. Machines and computers -- Ch. 19. Decline and fall -- Ch. 20. Three form of scientific religion -- Suggestions for further reading.

Summary: Modern science has its source in the great philosophical ideas of antiquity, in the earliest answers to the questions: What is the physical world? ... How did it begin? This brilliant volume re-creates the very spirit of the first epoch of science as it began to run the course from myth to method. It covers the eleven centuries between Anaximander and Proclus, and shows how and in what intellectual climate was born the scientific ideas that future generations developed. Included are selections from writings of ancient Greece and of the Roman Empire, which are placed in a completely new perspective by Professor Giorgio de Santillana of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Includes index.

Prologue. Of high and far-off times --
Ch. 1. On the nature of things --
Ch. 2. Reason and the vortex --
Ch. 3. The logos in the lightning --
Ch. 4. The power of number --
Ch. 5. The system of the world --
Ch. 6. A universe of rigor --
Ch. 7. Love, strife, and necessity --
Ch. 8. Doctor vs. Medicine man --
Ch. 9. Atoms and the void --
Ch. 10. Man the difficult measure --
Ch. 11. The care of the soul --
Ch. 12. Flight to the Trans-Uranian --
Ch. 13. A tidiness of words --
Ch. 14. Mathematics --
Ch. 15. The main issue in Astronomy --
Ch. 16. On the face in the round of the moon --
Ch. 17. Geography --
Ch. 18. Machines and computers --
Ch. 19. Decline and fall --
Ch. 20. Three form of scientific religion --
Suggestions for further reading.

Modern science has its source in the great philosophical ideas of antiquity, in the earliest answers to the questions: What is the physical world? ... How did it begin?
This brilliant volume re-creates the very spirit of the first epoch of science as it began to run the course from myth to method. It covers the eleven centuries between Anaximander and Proclus, and shows how and in what intellectual climate was born the scientific ideas that future generations developed. Included are selections from writings of ancient Greece and of the Roman Empire, which are placed in a completely new perspective by Professor Giorgio de Santillana of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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