The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity

Leonid Zhmud (Autor)

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X, 331 Seiten | Ausstattung: Hardcover & eBook

2008
De Gruyter
978-3-11-916762-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Leonid Zhmud,Russian Academy of the Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia.

Reihe/Serie	Peripatoi ; 19
Übersetzer	Alexander Chernoglazov
Zusatzinfo	Includes a print version and an ebook
Verlagsort	Berlin/Boston
Sprache	englisch
Themenwelt	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► Altertum / Antike
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften
Schlagworte	Antike / Wissenschaftsgeschichte • Antiquity/history of science • Antiquity/history of science; Aristotle/theory of science; natural sciences/history of science • Aristoteles / Wissenschaftstheorie • Aristotle/theory of science • natural sciences/history of science • Naturwissenschaften / Wissenschaftsgeschichte
ISBN-10	3-11-916762-2 / 3119167622
ISBN-13	978-3-11-916762-8 / 9783119167628
Zustand	Neuware