The Forgotten Revolution How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It H
The period from the late fourth to the late second century B. C. witnessed, in Greek-speaking countries, an explosion of objective knowledge about the external world. WhileGreek culture had reached great heights in art, literature and philosophyalreadyin
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Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg GmbH
Lucio Russo
The Forgotten Revolution How Science Was Born in 300 BC and Why It Had to Be Reborn
With the Collaboration of the Translator, Silvio Levy
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Lucio Russo Dipartimento di Matematica Università di Roma "Tor Vergata" Via della Ricerca Scientifica 00133 Roma, Italy
Silvio Levy (Translator) Mathematical Sciences Research Institute 17 Gauss Way Berkeley, CA 94720-5070, USA e-mail: [email protected]
First published as La rivoluzione dimenticata © Giangiacomo Feltrinelli Editore Milano, 1996
The translation of this book was supported by Segretariato Europeo per le Pubblicazioni Scientifiche
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Mathematics Subject Classification (2000): 01A20 ISBN 978-3-540-20396-4
ISBN 978-3-642-18904-3 (eBook)
DOI 10.1007/978-3-642-18904-3
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Foreword to the English Edition
The original plan for the book you are holding was simply to have an English translation of the second Italian edition. This would probably have happened as planned if someone other than Silvio Levy had been chosen as the translator. But after having exchanged with him the first few hundred e-mail messages, I realized that the work was taking on an altogether different aspect: he not only pointed out slips and inaccuracies of various kinds, but also kept suggesting editorial changes to the text. I made many of his proposed alterations, while others led to long exchanges wit
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