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. M.R. Wright examines the cosmological
theories of the "natural philosophers" from Thales, Anaximander and
Anaximenes to Plato, the Stoics and the neo-Platonists. The
importance of Babylonian and Egyptian forerunners is emphasized.
This is an introduction to the cosmological thought of antiquity.
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