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The Uses of Antiquity Stephen Gaukroger

The Uses of Antiquity By Stephen Gaukroger

The Uses of Antiquity by Stephen Gaukroger


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Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of W ollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand.

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The Uses of Antiquity: The Scientific Revolution and the Classical Tradition by Stephen Gaukroger

The institutionalization of History and Philosophy of Science as a distinct field of scholarly endeavour began comparatively earl- though not always under that name - in the Australasian region. An initial lecturing appointment was made at the University of Melbourne immediately after the Second World War, in 1946, and other appoint ments followed as the subject underwent an expansion during the 1950s and 1960s similar to that which took place in other parts of the world. Today there are major Departments at the University of Melbourne, the University of New South Wales and the University of W ollongong, and smaller groups active in many other parts of Australia and in New Zealand. 'Australasian Studies in History and Philosophy of Science' aims to provide a distinctive pUblication outlet for Australian and New Zealand scholars working in the general area of history, philosophy and social studies of science. Each volume comprises a group of essays on a connected theme, edited by an Australian or a New Zealander with special expertise in that particular area. Papers address general issues, however, rather than local ones; parochial topics are avoided. Further more, though in each volume a majority of the contributors is from Australia or New Zealand, contributions from elsewhere are by no means ruled out. Quite the reverse, in fact - they are actively encouraged wherever appropriate to the balance of the volume in question.

Table of Contents

Copernicus, Apollo, and Herakles.- Religion and the Failures of Determinism.- The Paradox of Power: Hobbes and Stoic Naturalism.- Cudworth and Seventeenth-Century Theories of Consciousness.- The Neoplatonic Conception of Nature in More, Cudworth, and Berkeley.- The Ancient Legal Sources of Seventeenth-Century Probability.- Robert Hooke, Physico-Mythology, Knowledge of the World of the Ancients and Knowledge of the Ancient World.- The Wisdom of the Egyptians and the Secularisation of History in the Age of Newton.- On Newtonian History.- Notes on Contributors.- Index of Mythical and Historical Figures.

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NPB9780792311300
9780792311300
0792311302
The Uses of Antiquity: The Scientific Revolution and the Classical Tradition by Stephen Gaukroger
New
Hardback
Springer
1991-07-31
261
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