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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      September 2020
      October 2020
      ISBN:
      9781108775199
      9781108477901
      9781108745215
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108775199
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.77kg, 438 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (229 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.634kg, 438 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Classical Studies, Classical Philosophy, Ancient Philosophy, Philosophy
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    This book examines the birth of the scientific understanding of motion. It investigates which logical tools and methodological principles had to be in place to give a consistent account of motion, and which mathematical notions were introduced to gain control over conceptual problems of motion. It shows how the idea of motion raised two fundamental problems in the 5th and 4th century BCE: bringing together being and non-being, and bringing together time and space. The first problem leads to the exclusion of motion from the realm of rational investigation in Parmenides, the second to Zeno's paradoxes of motion. Methodological and logical developments reacting to these puzzles are shown to be present implicitly in the atomists, and explicitly in Plato who also employs mathematical structures to make motion intelligible. With Aristotle we finally see the first outline of the fundamental framework with which we conceptualise motion today.

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    "Barbara Sattler's book is engaging, sophisticated and full of stimulating ideas. It traces the development of crucial presuppositions of natural science from their earliest roots in Parmenides to their fruition in Aristotle. The perspective and expertise which Sattler brings to these issues will be of great interest and value to those working in ancient philosophy or in the history of science.”

    Stephen Makin - University of Sheffield

    ‘… a thoughtful and probing book by an original thinker. Sattler's understanding of foundational issues in mathematics is put to fine use, and she does important conceptual work … There is much of great value in this book …’

    Sylvia Berryman Source: Journal of the History of Philosophy

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