Science and Speculation: Studies in Hellenistic Theory and Practice - Brossura

Barnes, Jonathan

 
9780521022187: Science and Speculation: Studies in Hellenistic Theory and Practice

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Studies the impact that the advances in philosophy and science had on each other in Greece between 300 B.C. and A.D. 200.

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Between 300 B.C. and A.D. 200 Greek science made spectacular advances and Greek philosophy underwent dramatic changes. In this broad-ranging series of papers distinguished scholars assess the influence of philosophical criticism on the sciences and the impact that the developments in science had on philosophical ideas.

Contenuti

Preface Victor Goldschmidt; Acknowledgements; Introduction Jonathan Barnes; Bibliographical notes; Chronological table; 1. The method of the so-called Methodical school of medicine Michael Frede; 2. Medicine, experience and logic Jonathan Barnes; 3. Geometry and scepticism Ian Mueller; 4. Force et science des machines François De Gandt; 5. Observational error in later Greek science G. E. R. Lloyd; 6. Astrology: arguments pro and contra A. A. Long; 7. The origins of non-deductive inference M. F. Burnyeat; 8. On signs David Sedley; 9. Confirmation et disconfirmation Jean-Paul Dumont; 10. Le théorie épicurienne du troit Victor Goldschmidt; Indexes.

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9780521246897: Science and Speculation

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ISBN 10:  052124689X ISBN 13:  9780521246897
Casa editrice: Cambridge University Press, 1983
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