Nature And The Greeks

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316124118
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.16/5 ( download)

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Download or read book 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' written by Erwin Schrödinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-06 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Nobel laureate Erwin Schrödinger was one of the most distinguished scientists of the twentieth century; his lectures on the history and philosophy of science are legendary. 'Nature and the Greeks' and 'Science and Humanism' makes available for the first time in many years the texts of two of Schrödinger's most famous lecture series. 'Nature and the Greeks' offers a comprehensive historical account of the twentieth-century scientific world picture, tracing modern science back to the earliest stages of Western philosophic thought. 'Science and Humanism' addresses some of the most fundamental questions of the century: what is the value of scientific research? And how do the achievements of modern science affect the relationship between material and spiritual matters? A foreword by Roger Penrose sets the lectures in a contemporary context, and affirms they are as relevant today as when they were first published.

Author : Gerard Naddaf
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791483673
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greek Concept of Nature written by Gerard Naddaf and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores the origin and evolution of the Greek concept of nature up until the time of Plato.

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.60/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Science and Humanism written by Erwin Schrödinger and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Henry Fairfield Osborn
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 286 pages
Book Rating : 4.17/5 ( download)

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Download or read book From the Greeks to Darwin: an Outline of the Development of the Evolution Idea written by Henry Fairfield Osborn and published by . This book was released on 1902 with total page 286 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
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Download or read book Nature and the Greeks written by Erwin Schrödinger and published by . This book was released on 1954 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Lukas Thommen
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1107002168
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.66/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Environmental History of Ancient Greece and Rome written by Lukas Thommen and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-03-08 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Lively and accessible account of the relationship between man and nature in Graeco-Roman antiquity. Describes the ways in which the Greeks and Romans intervened in the environment and thus traces the history of tension between the exploitation of resources and the protection of nature.

Author : J. Donald Hughes
Publisher : JHU Press
ISBN 13 : 1421412101
Total Pages : 321 pages
Book Rating : 4.08/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Environmental Problems of the Greeks and Romans written by J. Donald Hughes and published by JHU Press. This book was released on 2014-02-15 with total page 321 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How did ancient societies change the environment and how do their actions continue to affect us today? In this dramatically revised and expanded second edition of the work entitled Pan’s Travail, J. Donald Hughes examines the environmental history of the classical period and argues that the decline of ancient civilizations resulted in part from their exploitation of the natural world. Focusing on Greece and Rome, as well as areas subject to their influences, Hughes offers a detailed look at the impact of humans and their technologies on the ecology of the Mediterranean basin. Evidence of deforestation in ancient Greece, the remains of Roman aqueducts and mines, and paintings on centuries-old pottery that depict agricultural activities document ancient actions that resulted in detrimental consequences to the environment. Hughes compares the ancient world's environmental problems to other persistent social problems and discusses attitudes toward nature expressed in Greek and Latin literature. In addition to extensive revisions based on the latest research, this new edition includes photographs from Hughes's worldwide excursions, a new chapter on warfare and the environment, and an updated bibliography.

Author : Jean-Pierre Vernant
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 9780226853833
Total Pages : 332 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Greeks written by Jean-Pierre Vernant and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 1995-05 with total page 332 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we mean when we speak of ancient Greeks? A person from the Archaic period? The war hero celebrated by Homer? Or the fourth century "political animal" described by Aristotle? In this book, leading scholars show what it meant to be Greek during the classical period of Greek civilization. The Greeks offers the most complete portraits available of typical Greek personages from Athens to Sparta, Arcadia, Thessaly and Epirus to the city-states of Asia Minor, to the colonies of the Black Sea, southern Italy, and Sicily. Looking at the citizen, the religious believer, the soldier, the servant, the peasant, and others, they show what—in the Greek relationships with the divine, with nature, with others, and with the self—made him "different" in his ways of acting, thinking, and feeling. The contributors to this volume are Jean-Pierre Vernant, Claude Mosse, Yvon Garlan, Giuseppe Cambiano, Luciano Canfora, James Redfield, Charles Segal, Oswyn Murray, Mario Vegetti, and Philippe Borgeaud.

Author : Erwin Schrödinger
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1316025217
Total Pages : 88 pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)

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Download or read book My View of the World written by Erwin Schrödinger and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2008-11-27 with total page 88 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nobel prize winner, a great man and a great scientist, Erwin Schrödinger has made his mark in physics, but his eye scans a far wider horizon: here are two stimulating and discursive essays which summarize his philosophical views on the nature of the world. Schrödinger's world view, derived from the Indian writings of the Vedanta, is that there is only a single consciousness of which we are all different aspects. He admits that this view is mystical and metaphysical and incapable of logical deduction. But he also insists that this is true of the belief in an external world capable of influencing the mind and of being influenced by it. Schrödinger's world view leads naturally to a philosophy of reverence for life.

Author : H. A. Guerber
Publisher : Biblo & Tannen Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780819620941
Total Pages : 302 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Story of the Greeks written by H. A. Guerber and published by Biblo & Tannen Publishers. This book was released on 1996-10 with total page 302 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: