Overview
Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century BC to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and the complex physical theories of Anaxagoras and the Atomists in the fifth century.
- | Author: G. S. Kirk, M. Schofield, J. E. Raven
- | Publisher: Cambridge University Press
- | Publication Date: Dec 29, 1983
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- | Binding: Paperback / softback
- | ISBN-13: 9780521274555
- | ISBN-10: 0521274559
