UID:
almahu_9949385737202882
Format:
1 online resource.
ISBN:
9781003138723
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1003138721
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9781000601800
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1000601803
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9781000601862
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1000601862
Series Statement:
Issues in ancient philosophy
Content:
"Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity. Thales is most commonly associated with the claim that 'everything is water', but closer examination of the evidence that we have suggests that he could not have said anything of the sort. His real interests, and his real innovations, lay in challenges of quantitative measurement, especially measurements related to the movement of the sun. In this he had no predecessors - and, for centuries to follow, no real successors either. This book is of interest for scholars in the history of philosophy, science, and life sciences. It is aimed especially at researchers in the field, but is also accessible to students and a more general readership"--
Note:
Who were these ancient masters? -- A context for Thales -- Elements of a biography -- How to measure the height of a pyramid -- Thales dates the tropai -- From the dating of the tropai to the dating of the isēmeriai -- What explains a solar eclipse? -- A measurement of 1/2° -- Surface water, archē, earth and, it seems, some fragments of Thales -- The periodic flooding of the Nile and the 'Atlantic corollary' -- Thales and the stones of Magnesia -- The sky according to Thales -- To measure the distance of a ship from land -- Thales and the theorems of plane geometry -- Thales 'el injenioso hidalgo' -- Thales the sophos -- The 'new' fragments of Thales -- Thales the measurer -- The research bug.
Additional Edition:
Print version: Rossetti, Livio. Thales the measurer Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022 ISBN 9780367687090
Language:
English
Keywords:
History.
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Electronic books.
DOI:
10.4324/9781003138723
URL:
https://www.taylorfrancis.com/books/9781003138723
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