Greek philosopher Thales of Miletus, often described as the West's first scientist, believed the whole Earth was suspended on ...
Modern physicists like to compare themselves to the ancient Greeks — searchers for knowledge about the ultimate foundations of reality. But science historian John Heilbron argues in his latest book, ...
Canonical works in the philosophy of physics tend to begin with the Greeks. This practice stems from the philosopher’s need to flag the intellectual tradition from which current physics and its ...
Greece had two golden ages. The first took place after the Greeks defeated the Persians in early fifth century BCE. During the fifty years between the Persian Wars and the Peloponnesian War, 479 – 431 ...
O'Leary writes a fascinating history of a critically important phase in mesopotamian history. After all, it was the Arabs who brought with them into Spain the Arabic versions of the Greek works, from ...