TY  - BOOK
AU  - Richard H. Schlagel
PY  - 2021
CY  - New York, United States of America
PB  - Peter Lang Verlag
TI  - From Myth to Modern Mind
T2  - A Study of the Origins and Growth of Scientific Thought
UR  - https://www.peterlang.com/document/1116462
N2  - More than any other discipline, science has shaped the modern view of the world. The purpose of this two volume study is to recount how this came to be. Beginning with a depiction of primitive forms of mentality, Volume I, Theogony through Ptolemy, traces the contributions of the Presocratics and Plato to the sustained growth of scientific rationalism, culminating in Aristotle's organismic cosmology. This is followed by a description of the research of the Hellenistic precursors of modern science from Euclid and Archimedes through Ptolemy and Galen, comparing their mental outlook with that of the early church fathers. Volume II, Copernicus through Quantum Mechanics, recounts the origins of modern physical science and its conceptual development from the fourteenth century to the present.
KW  - Mentality, Rationalism, Cosmology
LA  - English
ER  -