Leonid Zhmud The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity

u
tility, 32–33
– of
mathe¯mata, 48, 71–76, 110, 294,
304
– of técnh, 45–46
– of ëpist2mh, 48, 124–25
V
itruvius, 84
Voltaire, 79
X
enocrates, 14, 102, 115, 125, 168,
178, 287, 292
– on mathematics, 90, 111, 116
– on Pythagoras, 112, 196, 216
Xenophanes, 13, 33, 34, 35, 44, 130,
142–43, 145–46, 150, 153, 156–57,
159–63, 238–40, 242, 244
– on progress, 267–70
Xenophon, 45, 66, 73, 259
Y
ahya an-Nahwi, 300
Z
abarella, 21
Zeno of Citium, 287–88
Zeno of Elea, 127, 150, 152, 161, 226,
263
Zeno of Sidon, 289
Zenodorus, 280
Zenodotus, 178–79, 209, 260, 291
Zopyrus of Tarentum, 283
Zoroaster, 8, 9, 116, 305, 307

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Document Outline

• Contents
• Works, quoted by the abbreviated title
• Introduction
  • 1. The historiography of science in the 16th–18th centuries
  • 2. The historiography of science in Antiquity
  • 3. Greek notions of science and progress
• Chapter 1
  • 1. Prõtoi eûretaí: gods, heroes, men
  • 2. Heurematography and the ‘Greek miracle’
  • 3. Inventors and imitators. Greece and the Orient
• Chapter 2
  • 1. The invention of técnh
  • 2. The theory of the origin of medicine
  • 3. Archytas and Isocrates
  • 4. Why is mathematics useful?
  • 5. From ‘progress’ to ‘perfection’
• Chapter 3
  • 1. Plato as architect of mathematical sciences?
  • 2. The Catalogue of geometers
  • 3. Mathematics at the Academy
  • 4. Plato on science and scientific directorship
  • 5. The theory and history of science in the Academy
• Chapter 4
  • 1. Greek science in the late fourth century BC
  • 2. Aristotelian theory of science and the Peripatetic historiographical project
  • 3. History in the Lyceum
  • 4. The aims of the historiographical project
  • 5. Eudemus’ history of science
  • 6. Doxography: between systematics and history
• Chapter 5
  • 1. Eudemus of Rhodes
  • 2. The History of Geometry: on a quest for new evidence
  • 3. The Catalogue of geometers: from Eudemus to Proclus
  • 4. Early Greek geometry according to Eudemus
  • 5. Teleological progressivism
• Chapter 6
  • 1. The fragment of Eudemus’ History of Arithmetic
  • 2. Aristoxenus: On Arithmetic
  • 3. The origin of number
• Chapter 7
  • 1. Eudemus’ History of Astronomy and its readers
  • 2. Thales and Anaximander
  • 3. Physical and mathematical astronomies
  • 4. Anaxagoras. The Pythagoreans
  • 5. Oenopides of Chios
  • 6. From Meton to Eudoxus. ‘Saving the phenomena’
• Chapter 8
  • 1. The decline of the historiography of science
  • 2. Biography and doxography
  • 3. From inventio to translatio artium: scheme and reality
• Sources
• Bibliography
• General index