Dordrecht Springer 2009 2009 ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 293 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white, Maps. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 257.

ISBN10: 1402097905, ISBN13: 9781402097904, [publisher: Springer New York] Hardcover Druck auf Anfrage Neuware - Printed after ordering - There can be little doubt that the Greek tradition of philosophical criticism had its main source in Ionia. . . It thus leads the tradition which created the rational or scienti c attitude, and with it our Western civilization, the only civilization, which is based upon science (though, of course, not upon science alone). Karl Popper, Back to the Presocratics Harvard University physicist and historian of Science, Gerald Holton, coined the term 'Ionian Enchantment', an expression that links the idea back in the 6th c- tury B. C. to the ancient Ionians along the eastern Aegean coast, while capturing its fascination. Approximately within a seventy- ve year period (600-525 B. C. ) -a split second in the history of humanity- the three Milesian thinkers, Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes, without plain evidence, but with an unequalled power of critical abstraction and intuition, had achieved a true intellectual re- lution; they founded and bequeathed to future generations a new, unprecedented way of theorizing the world; it could be summarized in four statements: beneath the apparent disorder and multiplicity of the cosmos, there exists order, unity and stability; unity derives from the fundamental primary substratum from which the cosmos originated; this, and, consequently, the cosmic reality, is one, and is based not on supern ...
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ISBN10: 1402097905, ISBN13: 9781402097904, [publisher: Springer] Hardcover
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Dordrecht Springer 2009 2009 ed. Hard cover New. Sewn binding. Paper over boards. With dust jacket. 293 p. Contains: Unspecified, Tables, black & white, Maps. Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science, 257.

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ISBN10: 1402097905, ISBN13: 9781402097904, [publisher: Springer-Verlag New York Inc.] Hardcover The Presocratics were the first in Western thought to interpret the universe critically. This book offers an accessible account of the founding and evolution of their thought, and it sheds unprecedented light on the scientific dimension of their work. Series: Boston Studies in the Philosophy and History of Science. Num Pages: 309 pages, 2 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HPCA; PDA; PDX. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 234 x 156 x 19. Weight in Grams: 1360. . 2009. Hardback. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.
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Springer, Date: 2009. Paperback. New. 2009. Springer ISBN 1402097905 9781402097904 [IN]