This book examines the birth of the scientific understanding of motion. It investigates which logical tools and methodological principles had to be in place to

This volume contains the text of Francis Cornford's 1931 inaugural lecture upon becoming Laurence Professor of Ancient Philosophy in the University of Cambridge

A 1999 Companion to Greek philosophy, invaluable for new readers, and for specialists.

This work traces the history of ancient Greek thought about causation and explanation. It examines ways in which they dealt with questions about how and why thi

On the Heavens Aristotle - On the Heavens is Aristotle's chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BC it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the