Ancient Greek Science and Philosophy
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This book is the first complete collection and analysis of ancient testimony relating to the chronology of the early Greek natural philosophers, astronomers, and geometers who were active before Aristotle. New estimates are given for the... more
One of the better-known episodes in the life of John Tzetzes is his complaint that during a period of poverty in the 1130s he had been forced to sell off his books until only two remained in his possession – a copy of Plutarch’s Lives and... more
This article presents a strategy for introducing Presocratic thought to students in a manner that is both engaging and relevant. The first section addresses students' reactions to the claim that the Presocratics were the first... more
Abstract The Discovery of Physis and the First Secular Theories of Everything Gerard Naddaf, York University Invited Paper XIII International Ontology Congress Physics and Ontology San Sebastian, October 2-6, 2018 In contemporary... more
Review of Greek history and society textbook which encompasses a timespan from the Bronze Age to 31 BC , utilising approaches from archaeology, history, literature, art, philosophy and reception studies.
Si bien la historia de la filosofía es también filosofía, no por ello puede pasar de largo sobre la necesidad de ser también una historia. Los textos que exponen lo que se considera como el conjunto de argumentos del pasado dentro del... more
The paper seeks to explain a difficult passage in Strabo’s Geography (II. 1. 1–20 C67–77), which is devoted to Hipparchus’ objections against Eratosthenes’ conclu-sions about the latitudinal position of India. It is argued, among other... more
Dear readers, I teach a course in Ancient Philosophy--primarily Plato and Aristotle--and have a fairly sturdy set of notes compiled over many years. I'm more than happy to share these with other instructors and scholars.
This paper compares the Milky Way in Aratus (Ph. 469–79) and Manilius (1.684–804), focusing on the role of the sublime in both texts. In Aratus, to gaze at the Milky Way is a sublime experience that constitutes an image for reading the... more
Empedocles-the-scientist got a minoritarian attention, and this paper was meant to do something in order to redress the situation. Two preliminary questions are addressed here at the beginning: (1) how folklore, speculation and 'science'... more
Ο τόμος αυτός επιχειρεί να προσφέρει ένα έγκυρο βοήθημα για τη μελέτη της αρχαίας ελληνικής γραμματείας κατά τους ελληνιστικούς και αυτοκρατορικούς χρόνους, δηλαδή την περίοδο από τον θάνατο του Μεγάλου Αλεξάνδρου, το 323 π.Χ., έως το... more
The aim of this essay is to rebuild the score of the musical fragment of Eu-ripides's Orestes (Vienna Papyrus, G 2315), based on the analysis of preserved notes and according to Ancient Greek music theory. This reconstruction takes... more
This paper focuses on one of the major criticisms made to Aristotle's virtue ethics, namely that it lacks explicit moral action guidance. The same criticism has been addressed to later developments of virtue ethics. There have been... more
Salomo Luria as a historian of science
Bringing together evidence preserved by Aristoxenus, Aristides Quintilianus, Ptolemy, Porphyry and the Greek musical handbooks in a unified framework, this article and its sequels show how the Classical modulation system reconstructed in... more
Depuis quelques décennies, la question d'une compréhension historiquement correcte de la méthode de Diophante a attiré l'attention des chercheurs. « L'algèbre moderne (c'est-à-dire, post-viètienne) », « la géométrie algébrique », «... more
I discuss in this paper the six requirements Aristotle advances in Posterior Analytics A-2, 71b20-33, for the premisses of a scientific demonstration. I argue that the six requirements give no support for an interpretation in terms of... more
Ce livre constitue la première étude du rôle de la génération dans les systèmes philosophiques d’Aristote et d’Averroès (1126-1198). En s’appuyant sur de nombreux textes traduits du grec, de l’arabe et du latin, l’auteur propose une... more
RESUMEN: El propósito de este trabajo es presentar una reconstrucción de cómo se articulan las nociones de finalidad y naturaleza en la física de Aristóteles, así como de la relación que guardan estos principios con la substancia eterna e... more
Traduction entièrement nouvelle de l'Apologie, tenant compte des dernières éditions ainsi que des enseignements tirés de l'édition-traduction du Dialogue avec Tryphon publiée en 2003, avec les articles qui l'accompagnent. Bien que les... more
The study of the science of the ancient Greco-Roman world falls between two academic stools: on the one hand, the history of science privileges the period opened by the inventions of the telescope and microscope; on the other, “classics”... more
نهضت ترجمه: سرگذشت ترجمه در فرهنگ اسلامی، از سده نخست هجری تا دوره معاصر/ نوشته سیداحمد هاشمی و دیگران، تهران: نشر کتاب مرجع، ۱۳۸۹ ش موضوع کتاب حاضر بررسی سرگذشت ترجمه در فرهنگ اسلامی از سدهی نخست هجری تا دورهی معاصر است. کتاب در دو... more
The Platonic cosmogony and zoogony of the Timaeus is distinctive in that the actions of the Demiurge and the lesser gods are modelled on a wide variety of skills, some obeying mathematical principles, some being modelled on more empirical... more
Sundials in Roman and Byzantine Mosaics (1st – 9th Century AD). A scientific monograph. The sundials on ancient mosaics have not been the subject of scientific studies so far. The author has gathered together in this publication the... more
In its original Babylonian and Egyptian contexts, astrology was the interpretation of celestial signs and omens sent by the gods as warnings to rulers and the elite. Roman fondness for Stoicism fertilized the growth of astrology in the... more
"This paper proposes three new (and tentatively, another two) identifications of sundials in Middle Eastern mosaics of the 5th – 8th century. The author discusses a vignette from the Holy Martyrs’ Church at Tayibat al-Imâm, central Syria,... more
Proof. Abstract Nietzsche argued that the Greeks were in possessions of every theoretical, mathematical, logical, and technological antecedent for the development of what could be modern science. But if they had all these necessary... more
The aim of this paper is to provide some acquaintance with the exegetical history of ἐξαίφνης inside the Platonic Tradition, from Plato to Marsilio Ficino, by way of Middle Platonism and Greek Neoplatonism. (Since this is only a draft,... more
This book investigates what change is, according to Aristotle, and how it affects his conception of being. Mark Sentesy argues that change leads Aristotle to develop first-order metaphysical concepts such as matter, potency, actuality,... more
This article aims at analyzing the history of the Latin iunctura “machina mundi” since its original formulation (Lucretius, DRN 5.95-96). Lucretius’ use of the world-machine metaphor contains a clear polemical intent, directed against two... more
Il s'agit d'une étude érudite (160 pages) du processus d'audition au Vème siècle avant notre ère chez les philosophes Grecs, d'après les traces qu'ils ont laissées auprès de leurs successeurs.
This chapter studies the conflict between reason and experience in Greek thought, from the Presocratics, through the Greek rationalists (Plato, Aristotle and his Peripatetic successors, the Stoics), to Galen and his reception in the... more