Anaximander and the Architects
Title | Anaximander and the Architects PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hahn |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2001-01-04 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780791447949 |
Uses textual and archaeological evidence to argue that emerging Egyptian and Greek architectural technologies were crucial to the origins and development of Greek philosophy.
Anaximander and the Architects
Title | Anaximander and the Architects PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hahn |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 354 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Science |
ISBN | 9780791491546 |
Anaximander and the Architects opens a previously unexplored avenue into Presocratic philosophy—the technology of monumental architecture. The evidence, coming directly from sixth century B.C.E. building sites and bypassing Aristotle, shows how the architects and their projects supplied their Ionian communities with a sprouting vision of natural order governed by structural laws. Their technological innovations and design techniques formed the core of an experimental science and promoted a rational, not mythopoetical, discourse central to our understanding of the context in which early Greek philosophy emerged. Anaximander's prose book and his rationalizing mentality are illuminated in surprising ways by appeal to the ongoing, extraordinary projects of the archaic architects and their practical techniques.
Geometrizing the Cosmos
Title | Geometrizing the Cosmos PDF eBook |
Author | Robert Hahn |
Publisher | |
Pages | 291 |
Release | 1991* |
Genre | Architecture, Ancient |
ISBN |
Anaximander in Context
Title | Anaximander in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Dirk L. Couprie |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 306 |
Release | 2012-02-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0791487784 |
Promoting a new, broadly interdisciplinary horizon for future studies in early Greek philosophy, Dirk L. Couprie, Robert Hahn, and Gerard Naddaf establish the cultural context in which Anaximander's thought developed and in which the origins of Greek philosophy unfolded in its earliest stages. In order to better understand Anaximander's achievement, the authors call our attention to the historical, social, political, technological, cosmological, astronomical, and observational contexts of his thought. Anaximander in Context brings to the forefront of modern debates the importance of cultural context, and the indispensability of images to clarify ancient ideologies.
Anaximander in Context
Title | Anaximander in Context PDF eBook |
Author | Dirk L. Couprie |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 308 |
Release | 2003-01-01 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780791455371 |
Places the development of Anaximander's thought within social, political, cosmological, astronomical, and technological contexts.
Anaximander's Book, the Earliest Known Geographical Treatise
Title | Anaximander's Book, the Earliest Known Geographical Treatise PDF eBook |
Author | William Arthur Heidel |
Publisher | |
Pages | 64 |
Release | 1921 |
Genre | Geography |
ISBN |
Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology
Title | Anaximander and the Origins of Greek Cosmology PDF eBook |
Author | Charles H. Kahn |
Publisher | New York : Columbia University Press |
Pages | 284 |
Release | 1960 |
Genre | History |
ISBN |
Reconstructs the pattern of Anaximander's thought, through a criticism and analysis of ancient traditions. Discusses the evidence for Anaximander's views and how this contributed to his observations of the universe.