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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Ancient Science"”.
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Clarifying the Conflict Between Modern Science and Natural Right
… relationship between natural right and modern science. It proceeds by comparing the ancient (Plato and Aristotle) and modern (Descartes and Bacon) conceptions of natural inquiry, through the categories of aims and attunements. I argue that whereas the aim of Platonic and Aristotelian science …
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A Study of the Peripatetic Mechanica
This study aims to understand the aims and methods of a less-studied work from the early Peripatos, the Mechanica. I argue that the Mechanica (Mech.) was an application of natural philosophy to the technical sphere of mechanics. The primary aim is to give causal explanations of various puzzling …
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Schools of Greek Mathematical Practice
… such as mechanics and catoptrics (i.e. fields of science and technology that use mathematical tools but are not essentially governed by mathematical principles), the epistemological and methodological differences between the systematist and heurist schools were retained.</p><p>The conclusion will …