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Author : Alexander Jones
Release : 1990
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Ptolemy's First Commentator by : Alexander Jones
Download or read book Ptolemy's First Commentator written by Alexander Jones. This book was released on 1990. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
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Release : 2015-09-15
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics by :
Download or read book Porphyry's Commentary on Ptolemy's Harmonics written by . This book was released on 2015-09-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Porphyry's Commentary, the only surviving ancient commentary on a technical text, is not merely a study of Ptolemy's Harmonics. It includes virtually free-standing philosophical essays on epistemology, metaphysics, scientific methodology, aspects of the Aristotelian categories and the relations between Aristotle's views and Plato's, and a host of briefer comments on other matters of wide philosophical interest. For musicologists it is widely recognised as a treasury of quotations from earlier treatises, many of them otherwise unknown; but Porphyry's own reflections on musical concepts (for instance notes, intervals and their relation to ratios, quantitative and qualitative conceptions of pitch, the continuous and discontinuous forms of vocal movement, and so on) and his snapshots of contemporary music-making have been undeservedly neglected. This volume presents the first English translation and a revised Greek text of the Commentary, with an introduction and notes designed to assist readers in engaging with this important and intricate work.
Author : Jacqueline Feke
Release : 2020-10-13
Genre : Mathematics
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Book Synopsis Ptolemy's Philosophy by : Jacqueline Feke
Download or read book Ptolemy's Philosophy written by Jacqueline Feke. This book was released on 2020-10-13. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A stimulating intellectual history of Ptolemy's philosophy and his conception of a world in which mathematics reigns supreme The Greco-Roman mathematician Claudius Ptolemy is one of the most significant figures in the history of science. He is remembered today for his astronomy, but his philosophy is almost entirely lost to history. This groundbreaking book is the first to reconstruct Ptolemy’s general philosophical system—including his metaphysics, epistemology, and ethics—and to explore its relationship to astronomy, harmonics, element theory, astrology, cosmology, psychology, and theology. In this stimulating intellectual history, Jacqueline Feke uncovers references to a complex and sophisticated philosophical agenda scattered among Ptolemy’s technical studies in the physical and mathematical sciences. She shows how he developed a philosophy that was radical and even subversive, appropriating ideas and turning them against the very philosophers from whom he drew influence. Feke reveals how Ptolemy’s unique system is at once a critique of prevailing philosophical trends and a conception of the world in which mathematics reigns supreme. A compelling work of scholarship, Ptolemy’s Philosophy demonstrates how Ptolemy situated mathematics at the very foundation of all philosophy—theoretical and practical—and advanced the mathematical way of life as the true path to human perfection.
Author : Abraham Lerman
Release : 1995-07-27
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Physics and Chemistry of Lakes by : Abraham Lerman
Download or read book Physics and Chemistry of Lakes written by Abraham Lerman. This book was released on 1995-07-27. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lake, as a body of water, is in continuous interaction with the rocks and soils in its drainage basin, the atmosphere, and surface and groundwaters. Human industrial and agricultural activities introduce new inputs and processes into lake systems. This volume is a selection of ten contributions dealing with diverse aspects of lake systems, including such subjects as the geological controls of lake basins and their histories, mixing and circulation patterns in lakes, gaseous exchange between the water and atmosphere, and human input to lakes through atmospheric precipitation and surficial runoff. This work was written with a dual goal in mind: to serve as a textbook and to provide professionals with in-depth expositions and discussions of the more important aspects of lake systems.
Author : Alexander Jones
Release : 2009-12-10
Genre : Science
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Book Synopsis Ptolemy in Perspective by : Alexander Jones
Download or read book Ptolemy in Perspective written by Alexander Jones. This book was released on 2009-12-10. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ptolemy was the most important physical scientist of the Roman Empire, and for a millennium and a half his writings on astronomy, astrology, and geography were models for imitation, resources for new work, and targets of criticism. Ptolemy in Perspective traces reactions to Ptolemy from his own times to ours. The nine studies show the complex processes by which an ancient scientist and his work gained and subsequently lost an overreaching reputation and authority.
