Ptolemys Philosophy

Author : Jacqueline Feke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 069121039X
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.91/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ptolemy's Philosophy written by Jacqueline Feke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2020-10-13 with total page 250 pages. 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 : Jacqueline Feke
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691179581
Total Pages : 250 pages
Book Rating : 4.82/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ptolemy's Philosophy written by Jacqueline Feke and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2018-10-16 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 : Liba Chaia Taub
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.84/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ptolemy's Universe written by Liba Chaia Taub and published by . This book was released on 1993 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Claudius Ptolemy, one of the greatest scientists of all time, probably lived in Alexandria in the second century A.D. His writings dominated astronomy and cosmology in medieval times. The replacement of his Earth-centered cosmology by the Sun-centered cosmology of Copernicus is the most celebrated event in the history of science. Yet, although there has been much scholarly discussion of the mathematical aspects of Ptolemy's astronomy, little attention has been paid to the philosophical, and particularly the ethical, ideas which animate the astronomy. Ptolemy's Universe is the first modern examination of Ptolemy's thought as a whole, and its place in Greek intellectual culture.

Author : Alexander Jones
Publisher : American Philosophical Society
ISBN 13 : 9780871698070
Total Pages : 72 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ptolemy's First Commentator written by Alexander Jones and published by American Philosophical Society. This book was released on 1990 with total page 72 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Ptolemy
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691002606
Total Pages : 712 pages
Book Rating : 4.06/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ptolemy's Almagest written by Ptolemy and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 1998-11-08 with total page 712 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic translations and extensive footnotes that take account of the great progress in understanding the work made in this century, due to the discovery of Babylonian records and other researches. It is designed to stand by itself as an interpretation of the original, but it will also be useful as an aid to reading the Greek text.

Author : George Payn Quackenbos
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 470 pages
Book Rating : 4.1F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Natural Philosophy written by George Payn Quackenbos and published by . This book was released on 1871 with total page 470 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Columbia University
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 686 pages
Book Rating : 4.97/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Lectures on Science, Philosophy and Art, 1907-1908 written by Columbia University and published by . This book was released on 1908 with total page 686 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Robert R. Newton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.31/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Crime of Claudius Ptolemy written by Robert R. Newton and published by . This book was released on 1977 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Newton's view, Ptolemy was "the most successful fraud in the history of science". Newton shows that Ptolemy predominantly obtained the astronomical results described in his work The Almagest by computation, and not by the direct observations that Ptolemy described.

Author : Wilhelm Ostwald
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 216 pages
Book Rating : 4.56/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Natural Philosophy written by Wilhelm Ostwald and published by . This book was released on 1910 with total page 216 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Sir Henry Hardinge Cunynghame
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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 266 pages
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Download or read book Short Talks Upon Philosophy written by Sir Henry Hardinge Cunynghame and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: