Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity
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- ISBN 9783110179668
- Weight: 900g
- Dimensions: 155 x 230mm
- Publication Date: 18 Jul 2006
- Publisher: De Gruyter
- Publication City/Country: DE
- Product Form: Hardback
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This is the first comprehensive study of what remains of the writings of Aristotle's student Eudemus of Rhodes on the history of the exact sciences. These fragments are crucial to our understanding of the content, form, and goal of the Peripatetic historiography of science.
The first part of the book presents an analysis of those trends in Presocratic, Sophistic and Platonic thought that contributed to the development of the history of science. The second part provides a detailed study of Eudemus' writings in their relationship with the scientific literature of his time, Aristotelian philosophy and the other historiographic genres practiced at the Lyceum: biography, medical and natural-philosophical doxography. Although Peripatetic historiography of science failed in establishing itself as a continuous genre, it greatly contributed both to the birth of the Arabic medieval historiography of science and to the development of this genre in Europe in the 16th-18th centuries.
Leonid Zhmud, Russian Academy of the Sciences in St. Petersburg, Russia.
