Plutarch's Science of Natural Problems : A Study with Commentary on Quaestiones Naturales / / by Michiel Meeusen.
In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, per...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Baltimore, Maryland : : Project Muse,, 2017 ©2017 |
| Year of Publication: | 2017 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Plutarchea hypomnemata.
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (555 pages). |
| Notes: | Issued as part of book collections on Project MUSE. |
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Table of Contents:
- Prologue
- Plutarch and the history of science : the case of Quaestiones naturales
- Introduction
- 1. Problems, problems, problems (and Aristotelian precedents)
- 2. The position of Quaestiones naturales in the corpus Plutarcheum
- 3. Quaestiones naturales and zetetic [paideia]
- 4. Plutarch's Platonic world view : the aetiological design of Quaestiones naturales and its scientific context
- Commentary
- Synopsis.