
Mechanical Hypothesis in Ancient Greek Natural Philosophy
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It has long been thought that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously as part of the workings of nature, and that therefore their natural philosophy was both primitive and marginal. In this book Sylvia Berryman challenges that assumption, arguing that the idea that the world works ''like a machine'' can be found in ancient Greek thought, predating the early modern philosophy with which...
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It has long been thought that the ancient Greeks did not take mechanics seriously as part of the workings of nature, and that therefore their natural philosophy was both primitive and marginal. In this book Sylvia Berryman challenges that assumption, arguing that the idea that the world works ''like a machine'' can be found in ancient Greek thought, predating the early modern philosophy with which...
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