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It has long been thought that the ancient Greeks did not take
mechanics seriously as part of the workings of nature, and that
therefore their natural philosophy was both primitive and marginal.
In this book Sylvia Berryman challenges that assumption, arguing
that the idea that the world works 'like a machine' can be found in
ancient Greek thought, predating the early modern philosophy with
which it is most closely associated. Her discussion ranges over
topics including balancing and equilibrium, lifting water,
sphere-making and models of the heavens, and ancient Greek
pneumatic theory, with detailed analysis of thinkers such as
Aristotle, Archimedes, and Hero of Alexandria. Her book shows
scholars of ancient Greek philosophy why it is necessary to pay
attention to mechanics, and shows historians of science why the
differences between ancient and modern reactions to mechanics are
not as great as was generally thought.
It has long been thought that the ancient Greeks did not take
mechanics seriously as part of the workings of nature, and that
therefore their natural philosophy was both primitive and marginal.
In this book Sylvia Berryman challenges that assumption, arguing
that the idea that the world works 'like a machine' can be found in
ancient Greek thought, predating the early modern philosophy with
which it is most closely associated. Her discussion ranges over
topics including balancing and equilibrium, lifting water,
sphere-making and models of the heavens, and ancient Greek
pneumatic theory, with detailed analysis of thinkers such as
Aristotle, Archimedes, and Hero of Alexandria. Her book shows
scholars of ancient Greek philosophy why it is necessary to pay
attention to mechanics, and shows historians of science why the
differences between ancient and modern reactions to mechanics are
not as great as was generally thought.
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