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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Baltimore, Maryland :
Project Muse,
2017
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| Sarja: | Plutarchea hypomnemata.
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Sisällysluettelo:
- 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.