A History of Western Philosophy
of "natural science" and "natural history," but "nature" by itself, though it is a very ambiguous word, seldom means just what " ...
sense that the dog moves while the bone remains at rest (until seized), and that the motion has a purpose, namely to fulfil the ...
heavens are perfectly spherical, and the upper regions are more divine than the lower. The stars and planets are not composed of ...
CHAPTER XXIV Early Greek Mathematics and Astronomy I AM concerned in this chapter with mathematics, not on its own account, but ...
they thought simply of doubling all the dimensions of the statue, but then they realized that the result would be eight times as ...
* G r e e k M a t h e m a ti c s, V ol . I, p. 1 4 5. ...
graceful, and implies that he himself began to know about it rather late in life. It had of course an important bearing on the P ...
than 3 10/71. The method could be carried to any required degree of approximation, and that is all that any method can do in thi ...
denly the work that the Greeks had done from pure love of theory became the key to warfare and astronomy. The Romans were too pr ...
no reason for moving in one direction rather than another. If this were valid, he said, a man placed at the centre of a circle w ...
lived at the end of the fifth century B.C. Although it is fanciful and in part quite unscientific, it is very important, since i ...
with a translation, inclines to the latter view. The evidence that Aristarchus suggested the Copernican view is, in any case, qu ...
Posidonius, 6545. The correct figure is 11,726. It will be seen that these estimates continually improved (that of Ptolemy, howe ...
Part III. Ancient Philosophy after Aristotle CHAPTER XXV The Hellenistic World THE history of the Greek-speaking world in antiqu ...
India, where Buddhism was moving towards supremacy. Wherever Alexander penetrated, even in the mountains of Afghanistan, on the ...
that northern races are spirited, southern races civilized, but the Greeks alone are both spirited and civilized. Plato and Aris ...
industrialism, will, however, survive. This analogue will help us to understand the position of the Greeks in the eastern parts ...
Both the Ptolemies and the Seleucids (as the dynasty of Seleucus was called) abandoned Alexander's attempts to produce a fusion ...
became the language of literature and culture, and remained so until the Mohammedan conquest. Syria (excluding Judea) became com ...
everything. He would be, as occasion arose, a soldier, a politician, a lawgiver, or a philosopher. Socrates, though he disliked ...
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