| The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity Contributor(s): Zhmud, Leonid (Author), Chernoglazov, Alexander (Translator) |
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ISBN: 3110179660 ISBN-13: 9783110179668 Publisher: de Gruyter OUR PRICE: $285.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: July 2006 Annotation: 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - History | Ancient - Greece - Science | History - History | World - General |
| Dewey: 509.3 |
| Physical Information: 0.94" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (1.56 lbs) 341 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - Ancient (To 499 A.D.) - Cultural Region - Greece |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This volume is the first comprehensive study of the content, form and goal of the Peripatetic historiography of science. The book first analyses similar trends in Presocratic, Sophistic and Platonic thought, and then focuses on Aristotle's student Eudemos of Rhodes. His work is the basis of the Peripatetic historiography of science which greatly contributed to the development of this genre in medieval Arabia and in Europe in the 16th-18th centuries. |