Thales the measurer /
Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity. Thales is most commonly associated with the claim that 'everything is water,' but closer...
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| Language: | English |
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London ; New York :
Routledge,
[2022].
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| Series: | Issues in ancient philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
- Who were these ancient masters?
- A context for Thales
- Elements of a biography
- How to measure the height of a pyramid
- Thales dates the tropai
- From the dating of the tropai to the dating of the isēmeriai
- What explains a solar eclipse?
- A measurement of 1/2°
- Surface water, archē, earth and, it seems, some fragments of Thales
- The periodic flooding of the Nile and the 'Atlantic corollary'
- Thales and the stones of Magnesia
- The sky according to Thales
- To measure the distance of a ship from land
- Thales and the theorems of plane geometry
- Thales 'el injenioso hidalgo'
- Thales the sophos
- The 'new' fragments of Thales
- Thales the measurer
- The research bug.