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THE new second edition of this standard book is to be warmly welcomed for several reasons. It first appeared in 1887, and has been long out-of-print. It is now reissued with some additional matter (a letter and essay on Melissus by Tannery and some notes by the editor, M. A. Diés). Above all, it has an admirable preface by M. Federico Enriques, putting the case for the study of the history of science and giving an estimate of Tannery's work as a whole. Hence it will be understood that this is a book to be possessed by all who make the history of thought the main line of their study of the past, but it should be accompanied by Tannery's two other books, “La Geometrie grecque” (1887) and “Pour l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne” (1893).
Pour l'histoire de la science Hellène.
Paul Tannery. De Thalès à Empédocles. Deuxième édition, par Prof. A. Diès. Pp. xxiv + 435. (Paris: Gauthier-Villars et Cie, 1930.) 80 francs.
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MARVIN, F. Pour l'histoire de la science Hellène . Nature 126, 394–395 (1930). https://doi.org/10.1038/126394a0
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