Author:
Graham, Daniel W.
Imprint:Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, [2013]
Descriptionxiii, 287 pages : illustrations, maps ; 22 cm
Note:Introduction: Cosmic Conjunctions -- Looking for Science. Unfounded Speculation ; Footnotes to Thales ; Footnotes to Pythagoras ; Science Without Knowledge ; History of Science Without History ; History of Science Without Science ; Old-Time History of Science -- Azure Pastures: An Early Ionian Model. Hesiod's Mythical Cosmography ; Ionian Theories ; The Meteorological Model -- Borrowed Light: The Insights of Parmedides. Fifth-Century Advances ; Three Insights: Heliophotism, Planetary Unification, Sphericity ; The Power of a Model ; Conjectures ; Conceptual Advances ; Conclusion -- Empire of the Sun: Implications of Heliophotism, and a New Model. Antiphraxis and Other Theoretical Implications ; A New Physics ; Anaxagoras' New Cosmology and Astronomy ; The Lithic Model -- Darkened Suns and Falling Stars: Heaven-Sent Proofs. Lives of the Eminent Philosophers ; Eclipses ; The Meteor ; The Comet ; The Nile Floods ; Conclusion: Theory and Evidence -- Lunar Revolutions: The Triumph of the New Astronomy. A Community Effort ; Anaxagoras' Theory ; Other Theories of the Fifth Century ; Characteristics of the Lithic Model ; The Doxography ; Plato's Heavenly Sphere ; Aristotle's Paradigm ; A Scientific Consensus -- The Geometry of the Heavens. The Story of Early Greek Astronomy ; Scientific Progress ; Historical and Philosophical Significance -- Appendix 1: Anaxagoras in the Historiography of Science -- Appendix 2: Science and History.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-274) and index.
