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.
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