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Chapters: Archimedes, Epicurus, Zeno of Citium, Andronicus of Rhodes, Anaxarchus, Pyrrho, Panaetius, Hermarchus, Cercidas, Persaeus, Cleomenes the Cynic, Demetrius Lacon, Crinis, Panthoides, Carneiscus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 83. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Archimedes of Syracuse (Greek: ; c. 287 BC c. 212 BC) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer. Although few details of his life are known, he is regarded as one of the leading scientists in classical antiquity. Among his advances in physics are the foundations of hydrostatics, statics and an explanation of the principle of the lever. He is credited with designing innovative machines, including siege engines and the screw pump that bears his name. Modern experiments have tested claims that Archimedes designed machines capable of lifting attacking ships out of the water and setting ships on fire using an array of mirrors. Archimedes is generally considered to be the greatest mathematician of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. He used the method of exhaustion to calculate the area under the arc of a parabola with the summation of an infinite series, and gave a remarkably accurate approximation of pi. He also defined the spiral bearing his name, formulae for the volumes of surfaces of revolution and an ingenious system for expressing very large numbers. Archimedes died during the Siege of Syracuse when he was killed by a Roman soldier despite orders that he should not be harmed. Cicero describes visiting the tomb of Archimedes, which was surmounted by a sphere inscribed within a cylinder. Archimedes had proven that the sphere has two thirds of the volume and surface area of the cylinder (including the bases of the latter), and regarded this as the greatest of his mathematical...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1844 ... Read more

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Chapters: Epicurus, Zeno of Citium, Chrysippus, Cleanthes, Arcesilaus, Xun Zi, Aristo of Chios, Strato of Lampsacus, Timon of Phlius, Li Si, Metrodorus of Lampsacus, Zou Yan, Hegesias of Cyrene, Hermarchus, Han Fei, Bion of Borysthenes, Cercidas, Idomeneus of Lampsacus, Polemon, Menippus, Gongsun Long, Sphaerus, Persaeus, Polyaenus of Lampsacus, Herillus, Leontion, Lacydes of Cyrene, Lyco of Troas, Aristo of Ceos, Colotes, Hermippus of Smyrna, Crates of Athens, Amynomachus, Timocrates of Lampsacus, Cleomenes the Cynic, Batis of Lampsacus, Zeno of Tarsus, Hermagoras of Amphipolis, Hieronymus of Rhodes, Carneiscus, Leonteus of Lampsacus, Themista of Lampsacus, Athenodorus of Soli, Diocles of Cnidus. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 173. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Epicurus (Greek: , "ally, comrade"; Samos, 341 BCE Athens, 270 BCE; 72 years) was an ancient Greek philosopher and the founder of the school of philosophy called Epicureanism. Only a few fragments and letters remain of Epicurus's 300 written works. Much of what is known about Epicurean philosophy derives from later followers and commentators. For Epicurus, the purpose of philosophy was to attain the happy, tranquil life, characterized by ataraxia, peace and freedom from fear, and "aponia", the absence of pain, and by living a self-sufficient life surrounded by friends. He taught that pleasure and pain are the measures of what is good and evil, that death is the end of the body and the soul and should therefore not be feared, that the gods do not reward or punish humans, that the universe is infinite and eternal, and that events in the world are ultimately based on the motions and interactions of atoms moving in empty space. His parents, Neocles and Chaerestrate, both Athenian citizens, had emigrated to the Athenian sett...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=10073 ... Read more

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Translated not from the Greek but from the French of 'La morale d'Epicure' compiled by Jacques Parrain, Baron des Coutures; the comments and reflections are also by Parrain; pp.i-xxxiii contain 'The life of Epicurus. Written by Monsieur du Roudel [sic].', i.e. Jacques du Rondel; the essay ascribed to St. Evremont is spurious.

London : printed for Sam. Briscoe, and sold by John Graves, and M. Dod, 1712. [22],xxxiii,[1],224p.,plate : port. ; 8° ... Read more

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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars.
The Age of Enlightenment profoundly enriched religious and philosophical understanding and continues to influence present-day thinking. Works collected here include masterpieces by David Hume, Immanuel Kant, and Jean-Jacques Rousseau, as well as religious sermons and moral debates on the issues of the day, such as the slave trade. The Age of Reason saw conflict between Protestantism and Catholicism transformed into one between faith and logic -- a debate that continues in the twenty-first century.
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Translated not from the Greek but from the French of 'La morale d'Epicure' compiled by Jacques Parrain, Baron des Coutures; the comments and reflections are also by Parrain; pp.i-xxxiii contain 'The life of Epicurus. Written by Monsieur du Roudel [sic].',

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Title: Beyond the Garden of Epicurus: The Utopics of the Ideal Roman Villa.
Author: Annette Lucia Giesecke
Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
Volume: 12Issue: 2Page: 13(21)

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Chapters: Democritus, Cicero, Confucius, Hippocrates, Epicurus, Lucretius, Avicenna, Socrates, Philodemus, Metrodorus of Lampsacus, Amafinius, Mkhitar Heratsi. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 150. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: ', known as Ab Al Sn (Persian: ) or, more commonly, Ibn Sn (Arabic: ), but most commonly known in English by his Latinized name Avicenna (Greek: , Avitzianós), (c. 980 - 1037) was a polymath of Persian origin and the foremost physician and philosopher of his time. He was also an astronomer, chemist, geologist, Hafiz, Islamic psychologist, Islamic scholar, Islamic theologian, logician, paleontologist, mathematician, Maktab teacher, physicist, poet, and scientist. Ibn Sn studied medicine under a physician named Koushyar. He wrote almost 450 treatises on a wide range of subjects, of which around 240 have survived. In particular, 150 of his surviving treatises concentrate on philosophy and 40 of them concentrate on medicine. His most famous works are The Book of Healing, a vast philosophical and scientific encyclopaedia, and The Canon of Medicine, which was a standard medical text at many medieval universities. The Canon of Medicine was used as a text-book in the universities of Montpellier and Louvain as late as 1650. Ibn Sn developed a medical system that combined his own personal experience with that of Islamic medicine, the medical system of the Greek physician Galen, Aristotelian metaphysics (Avicenna was one of the main interpreters of Aristotle), and ancient Persian, Mesopotamian and Indian medicine. Ibn Sn is considered the father of modern medicine and clinical pharmacology particularly for his discovery of the contagious nature of infectious diseases, the introduction of quarantine to limit the spread of contagious diseases, the introduction of experi...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1130 ... Read more