Michiel Meeusen Plutarch's science of natural problems

a study with commentary on quaestiones naturales

The role of natural science in the Roman Imperial Era. In his Quaestiones naturales, Plutarch unmistakably demonstrates a huge interest in the world of natural phenomena. The work of this famous intellectual and philosopher from Chaeronea consists of forty-one natural problems that address a wide variety of questions, sometimes rather peculiar ones, pertaining to ancient Greek physics, including problems related to the fields of zoology, botany, meteorology and their respective subdisciplines. By...

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Engels | 556 pagina's (PDF, 2,6 MB) | Leuven University Press, Leuven | 2017

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