Thales the Measurer

This book offers a comprehensive, iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his interests and activity. Suitable for students and scholars in the history of philosophy, science, and life sciences.

Table des matières

1. Who were these ancient masters?, 2. A context for Thales, 3. Elements of a biography, 4. How to measure the height of a pyramid, 5. Thales dates the tropai, 6. From the dating of the tropai to the dating of the is¿meriai, 7. What explains a solar eclipse?, 8. A measurement of ¿°, 9. Surface water, arch¿, earth and, it seems, some fragments of Thales, 10. The periodic flooding of the Nile and the 'Atlantic corollary', 11. Thales and the stones of Magnesia, 12. The sky according to Thales, 13. To measure the distance of a ship from land, 14. Thales and the theorems of plane geometry, 15. Thales 'el injenioso hidalgo', 16. Thales the sophos, 17. The 'new' fragments of Thales, 18. Thales the measurer, 19. The research bug.

A propos de l'auteur

Livio Rossetti, now retired, served for many years as Professor of the History of Ancient Philosophy at the University of Perugia, Italy. His most recent books are Convincere Socrate (Pistoia 2021) and Verso la filosofia: nuove prospettive su Parmenide, Zenone e Melisso (this is a book to which several editors and interlocutors contributed; Baden Baden 2020). The provisional title of his next book is Rethinking the Presocratics.

Résumé

This book offers a comprehensive, iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his interests and activity. Suitable for students and scholars in the history of philosophy, science, and life sciences.

Détails du produit

• Auteurs: Livio Rossetti
• Edition: Taylor and Francis
• Langues: Anglais
• Format d'édition: Livre de poche
• Sortie: 28.10.2024
• EAN: 9780367687106
• ISBN: 978-0-367-68710-6
• Pages: 214
• Poids: 420 g
• Illustrations: schwarz-weiss Illustrationen, Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Thème: Issues in Ancient Philosophy
• Catégories: Sciences humaines, art, musique > Histoire > Antiquité; Sciences naturelles, médecine, informatique, technique > Sciences naturelles en général; History of Ideas, PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, HISTORY / Ancient / General, Philosophy, Ancient World, Western philosophy from c 1800, Ancient History, Ancient history: to c 500 CE