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The World of Hesiod A Study of the Greek Middle Ages, c. 900-700 B.C


Free Download Andrew Robert Burn, "The World of Hesiod: A Study of the Greek Middle Ages, c. 900-700 B.C. "
English | ISBN: 103277374X | 2024 | 278 pages | EPUB | 4 MB
The World of Hesiod (1936) examines the world of the Ancient Greeks before Ionian rationalism and the civilisation of Athens. Lying between the Heroic Age and the Lyric Age, Hesiod and the Geometric potters and painters set the scene for the economic, political and social changes that were to follow.

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From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons Volume III Science Goes Vernacular


Free Download From Hesiod to Saussure, From Hippocrates to Jevons: Volume III: Science Goes Vernacular by Jens Høyrup
English | PDF (True) | 2024 | 280 Pages | ISBN : 3031515137 | 11.9 MB
This book is the third of a three-volume set introducing the history of scientific thought (including social and human science). The area covered in this volume is Western Europe during the 18th and 19th centuries. Combining general descriptions with extensive excerpts from original sources in English translation, it concentrates on ways of thinking and actual argumentation and not just on results and mistakes; questions of validity are primarily dealt with in the perspective of the time of the writing, not on that of the 21st century. The work is of great interest to historians of science and culture, students as well as seasoned workers – but also for amateurs willing to invest the necessary serious efforts.

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