The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge

by: Brunschwig, J. Lloyd, E.R.

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The Greek pursuit of knowledge
Authors:Jacques Brunschwig, G. E. R. Lloyd, Pierre Pellegrin

Summary:Ancient Greek thought is the essential wellspring from which the intellectual, ethical, and political civilization of the West draws and to which, even today, we repeatedly return. In this book drawn from the reference work Greek Thought: A Guide to Classical Knowledge, major scholars take up basic topics in philosophy and science, offering an account of the extraordinary explosion of desire for knowledge in the classical Greek world.

Contents:
The philosopher
Epistemology
Schools and sites of learning
Observation and research
Demonstration and the idea of science
Astronomy
Cosmology
Geography
Harmonics
History
Language
Logic
Mathematics
Medicine
Physics
Poetics
Rhetoric
Technology
Theology
Theories of religion
Chronology

xiii, 387 p. : maps ; 24 cm.

The Greek Pursuit of Knowledge

by: Brunschwig, J. Lloyd, E.R.

• ISBN-13: 9780674021556 / 978-0-674-02155-6
• ISBN-03: 067402155X / 0-674-02155-X
• Harvard University Press, Cambridge, Massachusetts, 2000

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by: Pflaum, M.H.-G.

• , Paris, 1966

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by: Gulletta, MI.

• Scuola Normale Superiore, Pisa, 1999

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• ISBN-13: 9783050031323 / 978-3-05-003132-3
• ISBN-03: 3050031328 / 3-05-003132-8
• Akademie Verlag, Berlin, 1997

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by: Tzalas, H.

• Hellenic Institute for the Preservation of Nautical Tradition, Delphi, 1990

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by: Guillermo, J.

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• ISBN-03: 0715643045 / 0-7156-4304-5
• Overook Duckworth, New York, 2013