The Physical World of the Greeks / / Samuel Sambursky.

Professor Sambursky presents a lucid and absorbing survey of the scientific ideas of the Greeks, showing how they constructed their world-view. He establishes what the Greeks thought and how much they knew, why they thought as they did, and why they did not learn more.Originally published in 1987.Th...

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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2014]
©1987
Year of Publication:2014
Edition:Course Book
Language:English
Series:Princeton Legacy Library ; 826
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505 0 0 |t Frontmatter --   |t CONTENTS --   |t ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --   |t PREFACE --   |t INTRODUCTION TO THE SECOND EDITION --   |t I. THE SCIENTIFIC APPROACH --   |t II. NATURE AND NUMBER --   |t III. HEAVEN AND EARTH --   |t IV. THE COSMOS OF ARISTOTLE --   |t V. THE WORLD OF THE ATOM --   |t VI. THE WORLD OF THE CONTINUUM --   |t VII. THE INTERDEPENDENCE OF THINGS --   |t VIII. COSMOGONIES --   |t IX. THE BEGINNINGS OF ASTROPHYSICS --   |t X. LIMITS OF GREEK SCIENCE --   |t LIST OF SOURCES QUOTED --   |t SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY --   |t INDEX 
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