The Byzantine sciences in the first modern Greek history of science textbook: Michael Stephanides, Introduction to the History of Natural Sciences

Almagest ◽  
2011 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 124-139
Author(s):  
Gianna Katsiampoura
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Science Textbook ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek History ◽  
History Of

LA BIBLIOTECA DI PIETRO OMODEO

Nuncius ◽  
2004 ◽  
pp. 357-373
Author(s):  
STEFANO CASATI
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Experimental Physics ◽  
History Of

Abstracttitle SUMMARY /title The library of the Institute and Museum of the History of Science has recently acquired the library of Pietro Omodeo, an important collection composed of approximately three thousand works, largely devoted to the natural sciences. The collection enriches the library's book holding, traditionally oriented towards the disciplines of experimental physics.

scholarly journals emil wohlwill, galileo and his battle for the copernican system

2001 ◽  
Vol 14 (s1) ◽  
pp. 371-373
Author(s):  
hans-werner schütt
Keyword(s):  
History Of Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
Galileo Galilei ◽  
Human Interest ◽  
Great Physicist ◽  
Copernican System ◽  
History Of ◽  
The Individual ◽  
The Right

galileo galilei is one of the few figures in the history of science who has attracted the imagination even of laymen to the natural sciences. the battle of this great physicist against the domination of his church, a battle which he ultimately lost, manifests fundamental human interest that extends beyond the individual. galileo pits the right of the thinking individual against the right of an institution that defends its claim to set norms for individual thinking because it posseses superhuman truths.

E. PREVELAKIS AND K. KALLIATAKI MERTICOPOULOU, ED., Epirus, Ali Pasha and the Greek Revolution: Consular Reports of William Meyer from Preveza, 2 vols. Monuments of Greek History No. 12 (Athens: Academy of Athens, 1996). Pp. 636 for vol. 1, 389 for vol. 2.

2000 ◽  
Vol 32 (2) ◽  
pp. 297-300
Author(s):  
Molly Greene
Keyword(s):  
Research Centre ◽  
The Public ◽  
Archival Material ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek History ◽  
Foreign Office ◽  
History Of ◽  
Public Record ◽  
One Year

This lengthy two-volume work is part of a long-term Greek project to make foreign archives concerning modern Greek history more accessible to researchers in Greece. Professor Eleutherios Prevelakis, who passed away one year before the publication of these volumes, became the director of the Research Centre for the Study of Modern Greek History of the Academy of Athens in 1963. This position allowed him to conceive and carry through his program of collecting in microfilm form British archival material of relevance to modern Greece. The two volumes under review grew out of the work that he and Professor Merticopoulou conducted over many years in the archives of the Foreign Office and the Colonial Office, which are stored in the Public Record Office.

“Life Is a Verb”: Inflections of Artificial Life in Cultural Context

2007 ◽  
Vol 13 (2) ◽  
pp. 189-201 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefan Helmreich
Keyword(s):  
Social Sciences ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Literary Theory ◽  
Artificial Life ◽  
Cultural Context ◽  
Art Criticism ◽  
Recent Literature ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
History Of ◽  
Verb Inflections

This review essay surveys recent literature in the history of science, literary theory, anthropology, and art criticism dedicated to exploring how the artificial life enterprise has been inflected by—and might also reshape—existing social, historical, cognitive, and cultural frames of thought and action. The piece works through various possible interpretations of Kevin Kelly's phrase “life is a verb,” in order to track recent shifts in cultural studies of artificial life from an aesthetic of critique to an aesthetic of conversation, discerning in the process different styles of translating between the concerns of the humanities, social sciences, natural sciences, and sciences of the artificial.

The Dublin Philosophical Society and the New Learning in Ireland

1964 ◽  
Vol 14 (54) ◽  
pp. 99-118 ◽  
Author(s):  
K. Theodore Hoppen
Keyword(s):  
Seventeenth Century ◽  
History Of Science ◽  
Natural Sciences ◽  
New Learning ◽  
History Of ◽  
Important Field ◽  
Natural Philosophers ◽  
Almost All ◽  
Intellectual Disciplines

The study of the history of science has only within the last few decades attained the rank of an important field of enquiry for both scientist and historian. It was thus almost inevitable that, at first, attention should have been focused on the great and original thinkers like Boyle, Newton, Descartes, and Leibniz. But this type of approach frequently results in the presentation of a distorted picture, for few men are geniuses, and these are not truly representative of their age. The Irish scientists of the late seventeenth Century, who ranged from the very able to the pedantically dull, are far more typical examples of contemporary natural philosophers than are Newton or Boyle.In 1680, science in Ireland was still a rare and infrequent study, and it must be admitted that the country had fallen behind the rest of Europe not only in the natural sciences but also in almost all other intellectual disciplines.

scholarly journals Myth or history? Ancient Greek mythology in Paparrigopoulos’ History of the Hellenic nation: controversies, influences and implications

2020 ◽  
Vol 16 ◽  
pp. 211
Author(s):  
Michael D. Konaris
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Greek Mythology ◽  
Ancient Greek ◽  
Historical Sources ◽  
Greek Culture ◽  
Modern Greek ◽  
Greek History ◽  
History Of ◽  
Greek Myths ◽  
Or History

This article examines the treatment of Greek mythology in Paparrigopoulos’ History of the Hellenic nation (1860–1874) in the light of contemporary Western European historiography. The interpretation of Greek myths was highly contested among nineteenth-century scholars: could myths be used as historical sources or were they to be dismissed as figments of imagination devoid of historical value? did they express in allegorical form sublime religious doctrines that anticipated Christianity, or did they attest to the Greeks’ puerile notions about the gods? The article investigates how Paparrigopoulos positioned himself with respect to these questions, which had major consequences for one’s view of early Greek history and the relation between ancient Greek culture and christianity, and his stance towards traditional and novel methods of myth interpretation such as euhemerism, symbolism, indo-european comparative mythology and others. it explores how Paparrigopoulos’ approach differs from those encountered in earlier modern Greek historiography, laying stress on his attempt to study Greek myths “scientifically” on the model of Grote and the implications this had. in addition, the article considers Paparrigopoulos’ wider account of ancient Greek religion’s relation to Christianity and how this affected the thesis of the continuity of Greek history.

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