Epicurean Tradition

Epicurean Tradition
Author: Howard Jones
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 262
Release: 2013-10-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 1134523343

First published in 1992. Epicureanism has had a long and complex history. This book is the first to chronicle this history, from its beginnings in Greece in the fourth century BC to its role in the development of philosophy and science in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries. Divided equally between the classical and post-classical worlds, The Epicurean Tradition is a notable contribution to classical scholarship and to the history of ideas.

Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul

Lucretian Thought in Late Stuart England: Debates about the Nature of the Soul
Author: L. Linker
Publisher: Springer
Total Pages: 144
Release: 2013-11-01
Genre: History
ISBN: 1137399880

How did writers understand the soul in late seventeenth-century England? This book considers depictions of the soul in literary texts that engage with Lucretius's Epicurean philosophy in De rerum natura or through the writings of the most important natural philosopher to disseminate Epicurean atomism in England, Walter Charleton (1619-1707).

Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England

Biblical Scholarship, Science and Politics in Early Modern England
Author: Kevin Killeen
Publisher: Ashgate Publishing, Ltd.
Total Pages: 274
Release: 2009-01-01
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 9780754657309

Kevin Killeen addresses one of the most enigmatic of seventeenth century writers, Thomas Browne (1605-1682), whose voracious intellectual pursuits provide an unparalleled insight into how early modern scholarly culture understood the relations of science, politics and religion. The book centres on a reassessment of Browne's most elaborate text, Pseudodoxia Epidemica, his vast encyclopaedia of error and through this explores the multivalent nature of early-modern enquiry.

A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy

A Companion to Early Modern Philosophy
Author: Steven Nadler
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Total Pages: 675
Release: 2008-04-15
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0470998830

This is a reference for early modern philosophy. Representing the most contemporary research in the history of early modern philosophy, it is organized by thinker rather than theme, and covers every important philosopher and philosophical movement of 16th- and 18th-century Europe.

Optics After Newton

Optics After Newton
Author: G. N. Cantor
Publisher: Manchester University Press
Total Pages: 282
Release: 1983
Genre: Light
ISBN: 9780719009389