From Myth to Modern Mind: A Study of the Origins and Growth of Scientific Thought

by Richard H. Schlagel

More than any other discipline, science has shaped the modern view of the world. The purpose of this two volume study is to recount how this came to be. Beginning with a depiction of primitive forms of mentality, Volume I, Theogony through Ptolemy, traces the contributions of the Presocratics and Plato to the sustained growth of scientific rationalism, culminating in Aristotle's organismic cosmology. This is followed by a description of the...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820426725
• ISBN13: 9780820426723
• Release Date: October 1995
• Publisher: Peter Lang Inc., International Academic Publi
• Length: 498 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.