Plutarch's Science of Natural Problems : A Study with Commentary on Quaestiones Naturales /

In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, per...

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Main Author: Meeusen, Michiel (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Baltimore, Maryland : Project Muse, 2017
Series:Plutarchea hypomnemata.
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505 0 |a Prologue -- Plutarch and the history of science : the case of Quaestiones naturales -- Introduction -- 1. Problems, problems, problems (and Aristotelian precedents) -- 2. The position of Quaestiones naturales in the corpus Plutarcheum -- 3. Quaestiones naturales and zetetic [paideia] -- 4. Plutarch's Platonic world view : the aetiological design of Quaestiones naturales and its scientific context -- Commentary -- Synopsis. 
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