Cosmic problems : essays on Greek and Roman philosophy of nature /
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| Author / Creator: | Furley, David J. |
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| Imprint: | Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1989. |
| Description: | xiv, 258 p. ; 24 cm. |
| Language: | English |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/932275 |
Table of Contents:
- Table of Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgements
- 1.. The Greek theory of the infinite universe
- 2.. The dynamics of the Earth: Anaximander, Plato and the centrifocal theory
- 3.. Notes on Parmenides
- 4.. Truth as what survives the elenchos
- 5.. Anaxagoras in response to Parmenides
- 6.. Antiphon's case against justice
- 7.. Aristotle and the atomists on motion in a void
- 8.. Weight and motion in Democritus' theory
- 9.. Aristotle and the atomists on infinity
- 10.. The rainfall example in Physics II.8
- 11.. Self-movers
- 12.. The mechanics of Meteorologica IV: a prolegomenon to biology
- 13.. Strato's theory of the void
- 14.. Knowledge of atoms and void in epicureanism
- 15.. Variations of themes form Empedocles in Lucretius' Proem
- 16.. Lucretius and the stoics
- 17.. Lucretius the Epicurean, on the history of man
- 18.. The cosmological crisis in classical antiquity
- Bibliography
- Index locorum
- Index of modern scholars
- General index.