Thales The Measurer
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Thales The Measurer
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Author : Livio Rossetti
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2022-07-01
Thales The Measurer written by Livio Rossetti and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022-07-01 with History categories.
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.
The Metaphysics Of The Pythagorean Theorem
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Author : Robert Hahn
language : en
Publisher: SUNY Press
Release Date : 2017-05-01
The Metaphysics Of The Pythagorean Theorem written by Robert Hahn and has been published by SUNY Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-01 with Philosophy categories.
Explores Thaless speculative philosophy through a study of geometrical diagrams. Bringing together geometry and philosophy, this book undertakes a strikingly original study of the origins and significance of the Pythagorean theorem. Thales, whom Aristotle called the first philosopher and who was an older contemporary of Pythagoras, posited the principle of a unity from which all things come, and back into which they return upon dissolution. He held that all appearances are only alterations of this basic unity and there can be no change in the cosmos. Such an account requires some fundamental geometric figure out of which appearances are structured. Robert Hahn argues that Thales came to the conclusion that it was the right triangle: by recombination and repackaging, all alterations can be explained from that figure. This idea is central to what the discovery of the Pythagorean theorem could have meant to Thales and Pythagoras in the sixth century BCE. With more than two hundred illustrations and figures, Hahn provides a series of geometric proofs for this lost narrative, tracing it from Thales to Pythagoras and the Pythagoreans who followed, and then finally to Platos Timaeus. Uncovering the philosophical motivation behind the discovery of the theorem, Hahns book will enrich the study of ancient philosophy and mathematics alike.
Thales Of Miletus
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Author : Patricia F. O'Grady
language : en
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Release Date : 2017-03-02
Thales Of Miletus written by Patricia F. O'Grady and has been published by Taylor & Francis this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-03-02 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
'What is the basic building block of the universe?' Thales of Miletus was the first to ask this fundamental, yet to be answered, question in the sixth century B.C. This book offers an in-depth account of the answers he gave and of his adventure into many areas of learning: philosophy, science, mathematics and astronomy. Thales proved that the events of nature were comprehensible to man and could be explained without the intervention of mythological beings. Henceforth they became subject to investigation, experiment, questioning and discussion. Presenting for the first time in the English language a comprehensive study of Thales of Miletus, Patricia O'Grady brings Thales out of pre-Socratic shadows into historical illumination and explores why this historical figure has proved to be of lasting significance.
Measuring The Cosmos
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Author : David H. Clark
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2004
Measuring The Cosmos written by David H. Clark and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004 with Science categories.
Humans have always viewed the heavens with wonder and awe. The skies have inspired reflection on the vastness of space, the wonder of creation, and humankind's role in the universe. In just over one hundred years, science has moved from almost total ignorance about the actual distances to the stars and earth's place in the galaxy to our present knowledge about the enormous size, mass, and age of the universe. We are reaching the limits of observation, and therefore the limits of human understanding. Beyond lies only our imagination, seeded by the theories of physics. In Measuring the Cosmos, science writers David and Matthew Clark tell the stories of both the well-known and the unsung heroes who played key roles in these discoveries. These true accounts reveal ambitions, conflicts, failures, as well as successes, as the astonishing scale and age of the universe were finally established. Few areas of scientific research have witnessed such drama in the form of ego clashes, priority claims, or failed (or even falsified) theories as that resulting from attempts to measure the universe. Besides giving credit where long overdue, Measuring the Cosmos explains the science behind these achievements in accessible language sure to appeal to astronomers, science buffs, and historians.
Measuring The Universe
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Author : Stephen Webb
language : en
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
Release Date : 1999-03-18
Measuring The Universe written by Stephen Webb and has been published by Springer Science & Business Media this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-03-18 with Science categories.
Recounts the mathematical reasoning which was used to calculate first the size of the earth, then the solar system, and so on up to the universe.
Greek Geometry From Thales To Euclid
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Author : George Johnston Allman
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1889
Greek Geometry From Thales To Euclid written by George Johnston Allman and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1889 with Geometry categories.
The Greek Philosophers
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Author : W.K.C. Guthrie
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2012-12-06
The Greek Philosophers written by W.K.C. Guthrie and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-12-06 with History categories.
W.K.C. Guthrie has written a survey of the great age of Greek philosophy - from Thales to Aristotle - which combines comprehensiveness with brevity. Without pre-supposing a knowledge of Greek or the Classics, he sets out to explain the ideas of Plato and Aristotle in the light of their predecessors rather than their successors, and to describe the characteristic features of the Greek way of thinking and outlook on the world. Thus The Greek Philosophers provides excellent background material for the general reader - as well as providing a firm basis for specialist studies.
Orr S Circle Of The Sciences
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1860
Orr S Circle Of The Sciences written by and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1860 with categories.
The Origins Of Democracy In Tribes City States And Nation States
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Author : Ronald M. Glassman
language : en
Publisher: Springer
Release Date : 2017-06-19
The Origins Of Democracy In Tribes City States And Nation States written by Ronald M. Glassman and has been published by Springer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-06-19 with Social Science categories.
This four-part work describes and analyses democracy and despotism in tribes, city-states, and nation states. The theoretical framework used in this work combines Weberian, Aristotelian, evolutionary anthropological, and feminist theories in a comparative-historical context. The dual nature of humans, as both an animal and a consciously aware being, underpins the analysis presented. Part One covers tribes. It uses anthropological literature to describe the “campfire democracy” of the African Bushmen, the Pygmies, and other band societies. Its main focus is on the tribal democracy of the Cheyenne, Iroquois, Huron, and other tribes, and it pays special attention to the role of women in tribal democracies. Part Two describes the city-states of Mesopotamia, Syria, and Canaan-Phoenicia, and includes a section on the theocracy of the Jews. This part focuses on the transition from tribal democracy to city-state democracy in the ancient Middle East – from the Sumerian city-states to the Phoenician. Part Three focuses on the origins of democracy and covers Greece—Mycenaean, Dorian, and the Golden Age. It presents a detailed description of the tribal democracy of Archaic Greece – emphasizing the causal effect of the hoplite-phalanx military formation in egalitarianizing Greek tribal society. Next, it analyses the transition from tribal to city-state democracy—with the new commercial classes engendering the oligarchic and democratic conflicts described by Plato and Aristotle. Part Four describes the Norse tribes as they contacted Rome, the rise of kingships, the renaissance of the city-states, and the parliamentary monarchies of the emerging nation-states. It provides details of the rise of commercial city states in Renaissance Italy, Hanseatic Germany and the Netherlands.
A Measure Of Truth
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Author : Ralph A. Hall
language : en
Publisher: Trafford Publishing
Release Date : 2011-11-01
A Measure Of Truth written by Ralph A. Hall and has been published by Trafford Publishing this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2011-11-01 with Philosophy categories.
Believe it or not, everyone has a personal philosophy. To some extent, everyone explores all the things philosophy explores. A life with a positive, uplifting philosophy will bring forth a life worth living. The Measure of Truth is a philosophy about humanity. It attempts to realistically resonate with our obligatory social and individual characteristics and, simultaneously, extrapolate ideals of love and compassion from the Judeo-Christian heritage. Finally, within our limited bubble of awareness, we can know where we come from, where we are, where we are going, and what things are possible.
