The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity

by: Zhmud, L.

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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.

Frontmatter

Contents

Introduction

Chapter 1 In search of the first discoverers: Greek heurematography and the origin of the history of science

Chapter 2 Science as técnh: theory and history

Chapter 3 Science in the Platonic Academy

Chapter 4 The historiographical project of the Lyceum

Chapter 5 The history of geometry

Chapter 6 The history of arithmetic and the origin of number

Chapter 7 The history of astronomy

Chapter 8 Historiography of science after Eudemus: a brief outline

Backmatter

The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity

by: Zhmud, L.

• ISBN-13: 9783110179668
• ISBN-03: 3110179660
• Walter de Gruyter, Berlin, 2006

Price: 114,95 EURO

1 copy in stock