Thales the measurer

by Rossetti, Livio

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Title Statements

Full title :Thales the measurer / Livio Rossetti.

Summary

Thales the Measurer offers a comprehensive and iconoclastic account of Thales of Miletus, considering the full extent of our evidence to build a new picture of his intellectual interests and activity. Thales is most commonly associated with the claim that 'everything is water', but closer examination of the evidence that we have suggests that he could not have said anything of the sort. His real interests, and his real innovations, lay in challenges of quantitative measurement, especially measurements related to the movement of the sun. In this he had no predecessors - and, for centuries to follow, no real successors either. This book is of interest for scholars in the history of philosophy, science, and life sciences. It is aimed especially at researchers in the field, but is also accessible to students and a more general readership.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2022.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Routledge Taylor & Francis Group
Place of Publication:Abingdon, Oxon
Language:eng
Publication Date:2022.

The Physical Object

Description:1 volume (XII-214 pages) : : figures. ; : 25 cm.

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9780367687090 (rel), 0367687097 (rel), 9780367687106 (br), 0367687100 (br)
oclc:on1348948963
LC Classification:B253
Dewey Decimal:199/.495

Subjects

Astronomers -- Greece Astronomy, Greek Greece Mathematicians -- Greece Mathematics, Ancient -- Greece Measurement, history Mesure -- Histoire Philosophers -- Greece Thalès Thalès de Milet