Author : Rhonda Martens
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 215 pages
File Size : 49,21 MB
Release : 2000-10-29
Category : Science
ISBN : 0691050694
Here, Rhonda Martens offers the first extended study of Kepler's philosophical views and shows how those views helped him construct and justify the new astronomy.".
Author : Daniel Graham
Publisher : OUP USA
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 30,52 MB
Release : 2013-08-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0199959781
In Science before Socrates, Daniel W. Graham argues against the belief that the Presocratic philosophers did not produce any empirical science and that the first major Greek science, astronomy, did not develop until at least the time of Plato. Instead, Graham proposes that the advances made by Presocratic philosophers in the study of astronomy deserve to be considered as scientific contributions.
Author : Cometan
Publisher : Astral Publishing
Page : 31 pages
File Size : 18,97 MB
Release : 2019-11-27
Category : Religion
ISBN :
Philosophical Astronomy & Scientific Astronomy is the ninety-eighth instalment in the Little Blue Book Series and comprises the third, fourth, and fifth discourses of the Septidoxy, which is itself the seventh disquisition of the Omnidoxy, Astronism’s founding treatise. The Philosophical Astronomy & Scientific Astronomy discourse firstly philosophises about the distinction between philosophical astronomy and scientific astronomy while secondly, the publication explores the study of hobbies conducted by Astronists. Thirdly and finally, this publication sets out The Cosmodora, a poem with significant Astronist meanings and undertones. The Little Blue Book Series was created and first published by Cometan himself as a way to simplify and commercialise the immensity of the two million word length of the Omnidoxy into smaller, more bite-size publications. A successful series from its very first published entry, the Little Blue Book Series has gone on to become a symbol of Astronist commercial literature and a way for Cometan’s words to reach readers of all ages and abilities who remain daunted by the beauty and yet the sheer extensiveness of the Omnidoxy as the longest religious text in history.
Author : Alan C. Bowen
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 783 pages
File Size : 31,72 MB
Release : 2020-02-17
Category : History
ISBN : 9004400567
In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.
Author : Paul Humphreys
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 945 pages
File Size : 44,94 MB
Release : 2016-08-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0190630701
This handbook provides both an overview of state-of-the-art scholarship in philosophy of science, as well as a guide to new directions in the discipline. Section I contains broad overviews of the main lines of research and the state of established knowledge in six principal areas of the discipline, including computational, physical, biological, psychological and social sciences, as well as general philosophy of science. Section II covers what are considered to be the traditional topics in the philosophy of science, such as causation, probability, models, ethics and values, and explanation. Section III identifies new areas of investigation that show promise of becoming important areas of research, including the philosophy of astronomy and astrophysics, data, complexity theory, neuroscience, simulations, post-Kuhnian philosophy, post-empiricist epistemology, and emergence. Most chapters are accessible to scientifically educated non-philosophers as well as to professional philosophers, and the contributors - all leading researchers in their field -- bring diverse perspectives from the North American, European, and Australasian research communities. This volume is an essential resource for scholars and students.
Author : Olaf Pedersen
Publisher : CUP Archive
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 28,62 MB
Release : 1993-03-11
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780521408998
The book describes how the scientific account of the world arose among the Greeks and developed in the Middle Ages.
Author : Jacqueline Feke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 250 pages
File Size : 28,15 MB
Release : 2020-10-13
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 069121039X
A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supreme The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, but his philosophy is almost entirely lost to history. This groundbreaking book is the first to reconstruct Ptolemy’s general philosophical system—including his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics—and to explore its relationship to astronomy, harmonics, element theory, astrology, cosmology, psychology, and theology. In this stimulating intellectual history, Jacqueline Feke uncovers references to a complex and sophisticated philosophical agenda scattered among Ptolemy’s technical studies in the physical and mathematical sciences. She shows how he developed a philosophy that was radical and even subversive, appropriating ideas and turning them against the very philosophers from whom he drew influence. Feke reveals how Ptolemy’s unique system is at once a critique of prevailing philosophical trends and a conception of the world in which mathematics reigns supreme. A compelling work of scholarship, Ptolemy’s Philosophy demonstrates how Ptolemy situated mathematics at the very foundation of all philosophy—theoretical and practical—and advanced the mathematical way of life as the true path to human perfection.
Author : Thomas L. Heath
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 35,4 MB
Release : 2014-03-20
Category : Performing Arts
ISBN : 1108062806
Published in 1932, this collection of translated excerpts on ancient astronomy was prepared by Sir Thomas Little Heath (1861-1940).
Author : P. Nicolacopoulos
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 438 pages
File Size : 19,20 MB
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Science
ISBN : 9400920156
Our Greek colleagues, in Greece and abroad, must know (indeed they do know) how pleasant it is to recognize the renaissance of the philosophy of science among them with this fine collection. Classical and modern, technical and humane, historical and logical, admirably original and respectfully traditional, these essays will deserve close study by philosophical readers throughout the world. Classical scholars and historians of science likewise will be stimulated, and the historians of ancient as well as modern philosophers too. Reviewers might note one or more of the contributions as of special interest, or as subject to critical wrestling (that ancient tribute); we will simply congratulate Pantelis Nicolacopoulos for assembling the essays and presenting the book, and we thank the contributors for their works and for their happy agreement to let their writings appear in this book. R. S. C. xi INTRODUCTORY REMARKS Neither philosophy nor science is new to Greece, but philosophy of science is. There are broader (socio-historical) and more specific (academic) reasons that explain, to a satisfactory degree, both the under-development of philosophy and history of science in Greece until recently and its recent development to international standards. It is, perhaps, not easy to have in mind the fact that the modem Greek State is only 160 years old (during quite a period of which it was consider ably smaller than it is today, its present territory having been settled after World War II).
Author : Thomas S. Kuhn
Publisher : Harvard University Press
Page : 330 pages
File Size : 45,95 MB
Release : 1957
Category : History
ISBN : 9780674171039
An account of the Copernican Revolution, focusing on the significance of the plurality of the revolution which encompassed not only mathematical astronomy, but also conceptual changes in cosmology, physics, philosophy, and religion.
