The Birth of Physics represents a foundational work in the
development of chaos theory from one of the world's most
influential living theorists, Michel Serres. Focussing on the
largest text still intact to reach us from the Atomists -
Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - Serres mobilises everything we know
about the related scientific work of the time (Archemides, Epicurus
et al) in order to demand a complete reappraisal of the legacy.
Crucial to his reconception of the Atomists' thought is a
recognition that their model of atomic matter is essentially a
fluid one - they are describing the actions of turbulence, which
impacts our understanding of the recent disciplines of chaos and
complexity. It explains the continuing presence of Lucretius in the
work of such scientific giants as Nobel Laureates Schroedinger and
Prigogine. This book is truly a landmark in the study of ancient
physics and has been enormously influential on work in the area,
amongst other things stimulating a more general rebirth of
philosophical interest in the ancients.
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