The Greek cosmologists. Vol. 1: The formation of the atomic theory and its earliest critics

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Content: Cover Half-title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Preface 1 Two pictures of the world 2 The judgement of Socrates 3 The beginning in Miletus 1 The origin of the world: matter alive 2 The dynamics and shape of the world 3 Anaximander and infinity. 4 Two philosophical critics: Heraclitus and Parmenides 1 The value of logos 2 Heraclitus on change 3 The challenge of Parmenides 4 The effects of Parmenides' poem 5 Pythagoras, Parmenides, and later cosmology 1 Mathematics and cosmology 2 The pioneer of the centrifocal universe. 3 Pythagorean fantasie 6 Anaxagoras 1 Anaxagoras 2 Mind as a cosmic agent 3 Anaxagoras'theory of matter 4 The cosmos of Anaxagoras 7 Empedocles and the invention of elements 1 The four roots 2 Love and Strife 3 The formation of the cosmos and its contents. 4 'Mortal kinds in thousands, a wonder to behold' 5 The question of the cosmic cycle 6 Appendix: the action of Love and Strife 8 Later Eleatic critics 1 The paradoxes of plurality 2 Melissus no 9 Leucippus and Democritus 1 The men and their books 2 What is and what is not 3 Atoms. 4 Atoms and mathematics 5 Perceptible qualities of compounds 10 The cosmos of the Atomists 1 The infinite universe 2 The origin of our world 3 The Atomists' theory of motion 11 The anthropology of the Atomists 1 The materialist theory of the psyche.