Cosmology and Cosmogony in the Ancient Greek World: Discuss the origin and development of Greek cosmology and cosmogony from the 8th to the 5th Century BC.
Title: Cosmology and Cosmogony in the Ancient Greek World: Discuss the origin and development of Greek cosmology and cosmogony from the 8th to the 5th Century BC.
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Cosmology and Cosmogony in the Ancient Greek World: Discuss the origin and development of Greek cosmology and cosmogony from the 8th to the 5th Century BC.
Category: /History/European History
Details: Words: 3715 | Pages: 14 (approximately 235 words/page)
"I think that it's important for scientists to explain their work, particularly in cosmology. This now answers many questions once asked of religion."
Prof. Stephen Hawking, Interview with The Guardian (UK) September 27, 2005
Cosmology is the metaphysical study of the structure and nature of the universe as a whole. Cosmogony is the branch of ancient philosophy concerned with the origins of the universe. Since the beginning of recorded history (and no doubt before) humans have been …showed first 75 words of 3715 total…
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…showed last 75 words of 3715 total…the others travelling in opposite directions, were to pass by each other at the same time, then each of the supposedly moving ones would take only half as long to pass the other as to pass the third, making 1=2.
Zeno's arguments are perhaps the first examples of a method of proof called reductio ad absurdum also known as 'proof by contradiction'. They are also credited as a source of the dialectic method used by Socrates.
