E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
Sambursky The Physical World of Late Antiquity
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ISBN: 978-1-4008-5898-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
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E-Book, Englisch, 202 Seiten
Reihe: Princeton Legacy Library
ISBN: 978-1-4008-5898-9
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: 1 - PDF Watermark
Sambursky describes the development of scientific conceptions and theories in the centuries following Aristotle until the close of antiquity in the sixth century A.D.
Originally published in 1987.
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FrontMatter, pg. i
CONTENTS, pg. v
PREFACE, pg. vii
INTRODUCTION, pg. ix
I. SPACE AND TIME, pg. 1
II. MATTER, pg. 21
III. SUBLUNAR MECHANICS, pg. 62
IV. MODES OF PHYSICAL ACTION, pg. 99
V. CELESTIAL PHYSICS, pg. 122
VI. THE UNITY OF HEAVEN AND EARTH, pg. 154
NOTES, pg. 176
SOURCES, pg. 179
INDEX OF PASSAGES QUOTED, pg. 181
GENERAL INDEX, pg. 185




