__The Birth of Physics__ focuses on the largest text still intact to reach us from the Ancient Greek Atomists - Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - but mobilises everything we know about the related scientific work of the time (Archemides, Epicurus et al) in order to demand a complete reappraisal of the legacy. Serres argues that the Greeks had all the mathematical resources to formulate an adequate picture of the physical principles acting on matter. Crucial to his reconception of the Atomists' thought is a recognition that their model of atomic matter is essentially a fluid one - they are describing the actions of turbulence. Recognition of this fact throws in relief the force of this ancient thought with respect to the recent disciplines of chaos and complexity. It explains the continuing presence of Lucretius in the work of such scientific giants as Nobel Laureates Schroedinger and Prigogine. This book is truly a landmark in the study of ancient physics and will promote not only more work in the area but also stimulate a more general rebirth of philosophical interest in the ancients

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La Naissance de la physique dans le texte de Lucrce

Michel Serres; Jack Hawkes

United Kingdom and Ireland, United Kingdom

New Ed edition, January 28, 2001

Manchester, ©2000

January 1, 2000

US, 2001

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This work focuses on the largest text from the Ancient Greek Atomists - Lucretius' De Rerum Natura - and mobilizes knowledge about the related scientific work of the time (Archimedes, Epicurus et al) in order to demand a complete reappraisal of the legacy. Serres argues that the Greeks had all the mathematical resources to formulate an adequate picture of the physical principles acting on matter. Crucial to his reconception of the Atomists' thought is a recognition that their model of atomic matter is essentially a fluid one - they are describing the actions of turbulence. Recognition of this fact throws in relief the force of this ancient thought with respect to the disciplines of chaos and complexity. It explains the continuing presence of Lucretius in the work of such scientific giants as Nobel Laureates Schroedinger and Prigogine.
CONTENTS 6
INTRODUCTION 8
Atomism ancient and modern 9
Inceptions: against finality 12
Language and perception 15
The question of law in nature 17
Philosophy, science and mathematics 18
Introduction NOTES 20
EDITIONS OF LUCRETIUS 22
TRANSLATOR'S PREFACE 23
PROTOCO L 26
First model: declination in a fluid medium 26
Turbulence 29
MATHE MATICS 32
An analysis of the hydraulic model 32
Archimedes' work 36
Archimedes, or the concept of deviation 42
RETURN TO TH E MODEL 50
Slope and extrema 54
Flows and paths 72
EXPERIENCES 90
The meteora 90
Experimentation: magnetism 113
CONDITIONS 124
Epistemological conditions Observation and simulacra 124
Cultural conditions Violence and contract: science and religion 130
Atoms, letters, cyphers 162
The genesis of sense 167
Coding 170
Fall and rhythm 174
HISTORY 181
Antiquity, modernity 181
MORALITY 188
The soul and the descent to the underworld 188
The garden and the local 195
INDEX 216

<i>The Birth of Physics</i>focuses on the largest text still intact to reach us from the Ancient Greek Atomists- Lucretius' De Rerum Nahra- but mobilises everything we know about the related scientific work of the time (Archemides, Epicurus et al) in order to demand a complete reappraisal of the legacy. Serres argues that the Greeks had all the mathematical resources to formulate an adequate picture of the physical principles acting on matter. Crucial to his reconception of the Atomists' thought is a recognition that thier model of atomic matter is essentially a fluid one- they are describing the actions of turbulence. This book is truly a landmark in the study of ancient physics and will promote not only more work in the are but also stimulate a more general rebirth of philosophical interest in the ancients.

2016-04-05