THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT - From Anaximander to Proclus, 600B.C. To A. D. 500

de Santillana, George

Published by New American Library, New York, NY, U.S.A., 1961

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A Mentor paperback, 1st printing October 1961.Condition is fine, small light handling crease near top corner of front cover and across tip of bottom corner of back cover, looks unread, corners and top edge bumped, light edge wear, no wroting or stamps, pages lightly tanned but tight and clean, cover is bright and glossy with some tanning, a nice looking book.**We have other books in this genre in stock and offer discounts in shipping on additional books, please contact us for more information**.WRAPPED IN A PLASTIC BAG TO PROTECT CONDITION OF BOOK.Summary - This book is a brilliant and stimulating interpretation of great philosophical ideas which have often gone unrecognised, in the onrush of technological advance, as the roots of what we know as science. Giorgio de Santillana has demonstrated here how our scientific age was not born in the seventeenth century, but reborn. For its origins we should turn to that brief and magic period when Greece came to flower. The author has selected from the writings of ancient Greece and of the Roman Empire, showing how the imaginative ideas of science were born, and in what intellectual climate. A particularly original theory is given of the use of the "Principle of Sufficient Reason" a pre-Socratic cosmology.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE ORIGINS OF SCIENTIFIC THOUGHT - From Anaximander to Proclus, 600B.C. To A. D. 500
• Publisher: New American Library, New York, NY, U.S.A.
• Publication Date: 1961
• Language: English
• Binding: Soft cover
• Edition: First Printing
• Condition: Fine
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  • Science