Epicurean meteorology : sources, method, scope and organization /

Epicurean meteorology : sources, method, scope and organization /

In Epicurean Meteorology Frederik Bakker discusses the meteorology as laid out by Epicurus (341-270 BCE) and Lucretius (1st century BCE). Although in scope and organization their ideas are clearly rooted in the Peripatetic tradition, their meteorology sets itself apart from this tradition by its sys...

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Main Author: Bakker, Fredrik A.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden ; Boston : BRILL, 2016.

Series: Philosophia Antiqua 142.
Philosophia Antiqua Online, ISBN: 9789004319752.

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Epicureans (Greek philosophy)
Meteorology > History.
Philosophy, Ancient.

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