Science - Antiquity and Its Legacy

Modern science and its technology are the children of the seventeenth-century. Shedding fresh light on topics such as Euclid's geometry, Aristotelian physics and the proto-Darwinism of pre-Socratic thinkers like Empedocles, this work addresses the fascinating differences and similarities between ancient and modern conceptions of 'science'.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Philippa Lang
• Verlag: Tauris, I.B.
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erscheint: 30.08.2015, verspätet
• EAN: 9781780761725
• ISBN: 978-1-78076-172-5
• Seiten: 192
• Serien: Ancients and Moderns; Ancients and Moderns
• Themen: Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik > Geschichte > Altertum; Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein