Eureka! (Icon Science) - The Birth of Science

Zusatztext 'Somehow everyone from Thales, Anaximander, Anaximenes and Pythagorus to Democritus, Socrates, Plato, Aristotle and Archimedes has been crammed into this readable, pocket-sized primer' Informationen zum Autor Andrew Gregory is Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London. His specialisms are in ancient and early modern science, ancient philosophy, and the relation of magic and science. He is also the author of Harvey's Heart: The Discovery of Blood Circulation (Icon, 2001) and Plato's Philosophy of Science (Bloomsbury, 2001). Klappentext Medicine, anatomy, astronomy, mathematics and cosmology, science began with the Greeks, and Plato, Aristotle, Pythagoras, Archimedes and Hippocrates were amongst its stars. That man ever managed to develop a "scientific" attitude to the natural world at all is one of the true wonders of human thought.Eureka! shows how, free from intellectual and religious dogma, these early thinkers rejected myths and capricious gods and, in distinguishing between the natural and supernatural, effectively discovered nature.Andrew Gregory, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at University College London unravels the genesis of science in this fascinating exploration of the origins of Western civilisation, and our desire for a rational, legitimating system of the world. Zusammenfassung An exploration of the eruption of scientific activity in the Ancient Greek world

Product details

• Authors: Andrew Gregory, Gregory Andrew
• Publisher: Icon Books
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9781785781919
• ISBN: 978-1-78578-191-9
• Series: Icon Science; Icon Science
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity; Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; SCIENCE / History, Ancient Greece, HISTORY / Ancient / Greece, Philosophy of Science, Ancient history: to c 500 CE, Ancient Greek and Roman philosophy