The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity

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ISBN: 9783110179668 | 3110179660
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Copyright: 8/15/2006

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This volume is the first comprehensive study of the content, form and goal of the Peripatetic historiography of science. The book first analyses similar trends in Presocratic, Sophistic and Platonic thought, and then focuses on Aristotle's student Eudemos of Rhodes. His work is the basis of the Peripatetic historiography of science which greatly contributed to the development of this genre in medieval Arabia and in Europe in the 16th'18th centuries.

Introduction: Greek science and its historiography

(22)

1. The historiography of science in the 16th-18th centuries

(9)

2. The historiography of science in Antiquity

(6)

3. Greek notions of science and progress

(7)

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

(22)

1. Π ωτomicronι epsilonupsilon epsilonται: gods, heroes, men

(6)

2. Heurematography and the 'Greek miracle'

(5)

3. Inventors and imitators. Greece and the Orient

(11)

Chapter 2: Science as τepsiolonχνη: theory and history

(37)

1. The invention of τepsiolonχνη

(9)

2. The theory of the origin of medicine

(6)

3. Archytas and Isocrates

(11)

4. Why is mathematics useful?

(6)

5. From 'progress' to 'perfection'

(5)

Chapter 3: Science in the Platonic Academy

(35)

1. Plato as architect of mathematical sciences?

(7)

2. The Catalogue of geometers about mathematicians of Plato's time

(11)

3. Mathematics at the Academy

100

(4)

4. Plato on science and scientific directorship

104

(4)

5. The theory and history of science in the Academy

108

(9)

Chapter 4: The historiographical project of the Lyceum

117

(49)

1. Greek science in the late fourth century BC

117

(5)

2. Aristotelian theory of science and the Peripatetic historiographical project

122

(11)

3. History in the Lyceum

133

(7)

4. The aims of the historiographical project

140

(7)

5. Eudemus' history of science

147

(6)

6. Doxography: between systematics and history

153

(13)

Chapter 5: The history of geometry

166

(48)

1. Eudemus of Rhodes

166

(3)

2. The History of Geometry: on a quest for new evidence

169

(10)

3. The Catalogue of geometers: from Eudemus to Proclus

179

(12)

4. Early Greek geometry according to Eudemus

191

(19)

5. Teleological progressivism

210

(4)

Chapter 6: The history of arithmetic and the origin of number

214

(14)

1. The fragment of Eudemus' History of Arithmetic

214

(4)

2. Aristoxenus: On Arithmetic

218

(6)

3. The origin of number

224

(4)

Chapter 7: The history of astronomy

228

(49)

1. Eudemus' History of Astronomy and its readers

228

(10)

2. Thales and Anaximander

238

(12)

3. Physical and mathematical astronomies

250

(5)

4. Anaxagoras. The Pythagoreans

255

(5)

5. Oenopides of Chios

260

(7)

6. From Meton to Eudoxus. 'Saving the phenomena'

267

(10)

Chapter 8: Historiography of science after Eudemus: a brief outline

277

(32)

1. The decline of the historiography of science

277

(16)

2. Biography and doxography

293

(4)

3. From inventio to translatio artium: scheme and reality

297

(12)

Sources

309

(3)

Bibliography

312

(9)

General index

321

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