Abstract
THIS book contains a good deal more than one might expect from the title. It not only gives an account of the cosmical systems of the Greeks from Pythagoras to Ptolemy, but discusses in considerable detail the views of the different schools of the same period as to the constitution of matter, and their principles of dynamics. As was to be expected from the author's previous publications on the history of natural philosophy, he shows himself well acquainted with ancient literature, and also (with a few exceptions) with the very extensive modern literature of monographs on Greek science. The most recent editions of the classical writers are always quoted, but with one notable exception, Diels's edition of the Doxographi Græci not having been made use of.
Le Systéme du Monde: Histoire des Doctrines Cosmoiogiques de Platon Copernic.
By Prof. Pierre Duhem. Tome Premier. Pp. 512. (Paris: A. Hermann et Fils, 1913.) Price 18.50 francs.
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D., J. Le Système du Monde: Histoire des Doctrines Cosmoiogiques de Platon Copernic . Nature 93, 317 (1914). https://doi.org/10.1038/093317a0
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