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Author:   Daniel Graham (Abraham Owen Smoot Professor of Philosophy, Abraham Owen Smoot Professor of Philosophy, Brigham Young University, Provo, UT, USA)
Publisher:   Oxford University Press Inc
Imprint:   Oxford University Press Inc
Dimensions:   Width: 21.30cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 15.00cm
Weight:   0.494kg
ISBN:  

9780199959785

ISBN 10:   0199959781
Pages:   304
Publication Date:   01 August 2013
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Undergraduate ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

CONTENTS Introduction: Cosmic Conjunctions 1 Looking for Science 1.1 Unfounded speculation 1.2 Footnotes to Thales 1.3 Footnotes to Pythagoras 1.4 Science without knowledge 1.5 History of science without history 1.6 History of science without science 1.7 Old-time history of science Notes 2 Azure Pastures: An Early Ionian Model 2.1 Hesiod's mythical cosmography 2.2 Ionian theories 2.3 The Meteorological Model Notes 3 Borrowed Light: The Insights of Parmenides 3.1 Fifth-century advances 3.2 Three insights: Heliophotism, planetary unification, sphericity 3.3 The power of a model 3.4 Conjectures 3.5 Conceptual advances Notes 4 Empire of the Sun: Implications of Heliophotism, and a New Model 4.1 Antiphraxis and other theoretical implications 4.2 A new physics 4.3 Anaxagoras' new cosmology and astronomy 4.4 The Lithic Model Notes 5 Darkened Suns and Falling Stars: Heaven-sent Proofs 5.1 Lives of the eminent philosophers 5.2 Eclipses 5.3 The meteor 5.4 The comet 5.5 The Nile floods Notes 6 Lunar Revolutions: The Triumph of the New Astronomy 6.1 A community effort 6.2 Anaxagoras' theory 6.3 Other theories of the fifth century 6.4 Characteristics of the Lithic Model 6.5 The doxography 6.6 Plato's heavenly sphere 6.7 Aristotle's paradigm 6.8 A scientific consensus Notes 7 The Geometry of the Heavens 7.1 The story of early Greek astronomy 7.2 Scientific Progress 7.3 Historical and Philosophical Significance Notes Appendix 1: Anaxagoras in the Historiography of Science Notes Appendix 2: Science and History Notes Bibliography

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An especially interesting and valuable part of the book is Graham's reflections on the philosophy of science and on the role of historians of science, both of which he gives in the early chapters in a well-reasoned appendix. Highly recommended. -D.E. Hogg, emeritus, National Radio Astronomy Observatory, CHOICE

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Daniel W. Graham is Professor of Philosophy at Brigham Young University. He has written, translated, or edited seven volumes on ancient philosophy and has published numerous scholarly articles on Aristotle, Plato, Socrates, and the Presocratic philosophers. He does research in history of philosophy and history of science. He is president of the International Association for Presoratic Studies and a member of the editorial board of Apeiron.

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