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But I think it can be shown that an ordinary Greek of , say , the fifth century would not have agreed with us . I believe it was just as obvious to him that Space was not an unlimited and shapeless extent , but finite and spherical ...
But I think it can be shown that an ordinary Greek of , say , the fifth century would not have agreed with us . I believe it was just as obvious to him that Space was not an unlimited and shapeless extent , but finite and spherical ...
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But the men of my Victorian generation , to whom the war came in middle life , are struck by two features which seem common to the opening of the fourth century at Athens and the present time in England . One is the collapse — whether ...
But the men of my Victorian generation , to whom the war came in middle life , are struck by two features which seem common to the opening of the fourth century at Athens and the present time in England . One is the collapse — whether ...
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This evolutionary tradition culminated in the Atomism of Democritus , towards the end of the fifth century . His system , with slight modifications , was adopted , after Aristotle's death , by Epicurus , and reproduced by Lucretius for ...
This evolutionary tradition culminated in the Atomism of Democritus , towards the end of the fifth century . His system , with slight modifications , was adopted , after Aristotle's death , by Epicurus , and reproduced by Lucretius for ...
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Contents
The Harmony of the Spheres 1930 | 14 |
The Unwritten Philosophy 1935 | 28 |
Platos Commonwealth 1935 | 47 |
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| Title | The Unwritten Philosophy and Other Essays |
| Author | Francis Macdonald Cornford |
| Editor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Contributor | William Keith Chambers Guthrie |
| Publisher | University Press, 1950 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 28 Jun 2006 |
| Length | 138 pages |
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