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Pages: 1084
Authors: Jacques Brunschwig
Categories: History
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In more than 60 essays by an international team of scholars, this volume explores the full breadth and reach of Greek thought, investigating what the Greeks kne
The Origins of Greek Thought
Language: en
Pages: 148
Authors: Jean-Pierre Vernant
Categories: History
Type: BOOK - Published: 1984 - Publisher: Cornell University Press

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Jean-Pierre Vernant's concise, brilliant essay on the origins of Greek thought relates the cultural achievement of the ancient Greeks to their physical and soci
Greek Thought, Arabic Culture
Language: en
Pages: 252
Authors: Dimitri Gutas
Categories: Foreign Language Study
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Psychology Press

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With the accession of the Arab dynasty of the 'Abbasids to power and the foundation of Baghdad, a Graeco-Arabic translation movement was initiated, and by the e
A Guide to Greek Thought
Language: en
Pages: 508
Authors: Jacques Brunschwig
Categories: Fiction
Type: BOOK - Published: 2003 - Publisher: Harvard University Press

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The philosophers, historians and scientists of ancient Greece inaugurated and nourished the tradition of Western thought. This volume, drawn from the reference
Greek Mathematical Thought and the Origin of Algebra
Language: en
Pages: 246
Authors: Jacob Klein
Categories: Mathematics
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013-04-22 - Publisher: Courier Corporation

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Important study focuses on the revival and assimilation of ancient Greek mathematics in the 13th-16th centuries, via Arabic science, and the 16th-century develo