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Author: Aldo Brancacci
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2007
Total Pages: 359
ISBN-13: 9004151605
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume gathers specific investigations dealing with some of the main topics of the research on Democritus: the catalogue of works, music, literary criticism, technics, zoology and the relation to medicine, physics, epistemology, posterity.
Author: Leucippus
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2010-01-01
Total Pages: 323
ISBN-13: 1442612126
DOWNLOAD EBOOKA new presentation of the evidence for the thought of Leucippus and Democritus, based on the original sources. Includes the Greek text of the fragments with facing English translation, notes, commentary, and complete indexes and concordances.
Author: Scott Aaronson
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2013-03-14
Total Pages: 403
ISBN-13: 0521199565
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTakes students and researchers on a tour through some of the deepest ideas of maths, computer science and physics.
Author: Matteo Martelli
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 2013
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781909662285
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Four Books of pseudo-Democritus, written in the first century AD, rank among the very earliest known alchemical writings. In this volume, Matteo Martelli presents not only a fresh edition and translation of the surviving Greek fragments, but also, for the first time, additional materials preserved in Syriac.The volume presents important examples of the early modern and medieval reception of Synesius and Dioscorus - the most interesting Byzantine commentary on the Four Books - and previously unpublished Latin translations of both the Four Books and Synesius' commentary made by Matthaeus Zuber in 1606. Accompanied by a full translation and commentary, these sources offer new and significant insights into the world of ancient chemistry: practical recipes and lists of ingredients, clues to the doctrinal content of ancient alchemy, and early hints of a tradition that linked the alchemist 'Democritus' to the wisdom of Egypt and Persia.
Author: Katherine MacFarlane
Publisher: Enslow Publishing, LLC
Published: 2009-07-01
Total Pages: 116
ISBN-13: 9780766034105
DOWNLOAD EBOOK"A biography of ancient Greek philosopher Democritus, who believed that all matter was made up of indivisible and indestructible particles called atoms moving around in a void"--Provided by publisher.
Author: M. Nill
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2016-06-21
Total Pages: 131
ISBN-13: 9004320652
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Published: 1850
Total Pages: 788
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKAuthor: Aldo Brancacci
Publisher: BRILL
Published: 2006-12-31
Total Pages: 358
ISBN-13: 9047409728
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis volume gathers the papers presented at an International Colloquium held in Paris in 2003, and offers new contributions and new interpretative suggestions about both canonical and relatively neglected research areas on Democritus, including ethics, physics and epistemology, as well as musical and literary criticism, technics, zoology, and the catalogue of works. Specific contributions are furthermore devoted to Democritus’ posterity and the problem of sources. The book also offers a detailed bibliography and several indices, which render it an up-to-date and stimulating tool for contemporary research on Democritus and atomism. Essays by: A. Brancacci, L. Gemelli, A. Jaulin, W. Leszl, J. Mansfeld, P.-M. Morel, D. O’Brien, L. Perilli, J. Salem, C.C.W. Taylor, J. Warren.
Author: Véronique Decaix
Publisher: Taylor & Francis
Published: 2024-10-25
Total Pages: 377
ISBN-13: 1040150853
DOWNLOAD EBOOKTheories of Colour from Democritus to Descartes investigates issues of the ontological status and perception of colours, such as: What is the nature of colours? Do they exist independently of the subjects who perceive them? And if so, how are they generated and how do they differ from one another? These are some of the questions raised by philosophers, but what has been lacking is an account of the various theories about colours through different periods of the history of philosophy. Exploring philosophical debates on the nature and perception of colours from a historical perspective, this book presents how different theories from Antiquity through the Middle Ages to the early modern era explain the nature of colours, their generation, and the way they are perceived. Twelve eminent historians of philosophy analyse the theories of colours prevailing at critical points in the history of Western philosophy, from its beginnings with Democritus to Descartes and the early modern period. This book will appeal to students and scholars working on the history of philosophy (ancient, medieval, Arabic and Latin, and early modern) as well as those interested in contemporary philosophy: philosophy of the mind, philosophy of perception, phenomenology, metaphysics, and neurosciences. A broader audience may also include researchers in psychology, cultural history, and the history of art.
Author: Paul Cartledge
Publisher: Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Published: 2011-09-14
Total Pages: 48
ISBN-13: 1780221576
DOWNLOAD EBOOKPart of the GREAT PHILOSOPHERS series. Democritus c. 460-c. 370BC The Renaissance's 'Laughing Philosopher'; our own age's 'Prophet of Quark': throughout the modern philosophical tradition, Democritus has been a man little known beyond his labels. Yet if the image of the cheerful ironist understates his true seriousness, that of father of modern nuclear physics - though by no means entirely unfounded - loses sign of the man in the hyperbole. Flattering as it is, it fails to do justice either to the full range of Democritus' interests or to the astonishing originality of his ideas. For Democritus' remarkable investigations took him far beyond the realms of physics and chemistry to explore the science of existence as a whole. Perception, selfhood and society; ethic, politics and the law: as Paul Cartledge's enthralling introduction makes clear, Democritus has much to teach us, in all these fields and more.
