The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity (Hardcover)

This is the first comprehensive study of what remains of the writings of Aristotle's student Eudemus of Rhodes on the history of the exact sciences. These fragments are crucial to our understanding of the content, form, and goal of the Peripatetic historiography of science. The first part of the book presents an analysis of those trends in Presocratic, Sophistic and Platonic thought that contributed to the development of the history of science. The second part provides a detailed study of Eudemus' writings in their relationship with the scientific literature of his time, Aristotelian philosophy and the other historiographic genres practiced at the Lyceum: biography, medical and natural-philosophical doxography. Although Peripatetic historiography of science failed in establishing itself as a continuous genre, it greatly contributed both to the birth of the Arabic medieval historiography of science and to the development of this genre in Europe in the 16th-18th centuries.

General

Imprint:	De Gruyter
Country of origin:	Germany
Series:	Peripatoi
Release date:	July 2006
First published:	2006
Authors:	Leonid Zhmud
Translators:	Alexander Chernoglazov
Dimensions:	230 x 155 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	341
ISBN-13:	978-3-11-017966-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > History of science
LSN:	3-11-017966-0
Barcode:	9783110179668

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