Anaximander : a re-assessment /
"Anaximander, the sixth-century BCE philosopher of Miletus, is often credited as being the instigator of both science and philosophy. The first recorded philosopher to posit the idea of the boundless cosmos, he was also the first to attempt to explain the origins of the world and humankind in r...
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New York :
Bloomsbury Academic,
2016.
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Table of Contents:
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- Prologue
- Introduction
- 1. Anaximander, Son of Praxiades of Miletus
- 2. Re-Assessing Anaximander
- 3. Anaximander's Zoogony
- 4. Anaximander and Meteorology
- 5. The Apeiron
- 6. Cosmogony
- 7. Anaximander: One Cosmos or Many?
- 8. Stability of the Cosmos
- 9. Cosmology and Astronomy
- 10. Anaximander's Numbers
- 12. Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Index.