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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
Introduction
One: The Sixth Century
Knowledge and Astronomy
The Gods
Miletus
Two: Anaximander’s Contributions
Three: Atmospheric Phenomena
Cosmological and Biological Naturalism
Four: Earth Floats in Space, Suspended in the Void
Five: Invisible Entities and Natural Laws
Thales: Water
Anaximenes: Compressing and Rarefying
Anaximander: Apeiron
The Idea of Natural Law: Anaximander, Pythagoras, and Plato
Six: Rebellion Becomes Virtue
Seven: Writing, Democracy, and Cultural Crossbreeding
The Greek Alphabet
Science and Democracy
Cultural Crossbreeding
Eight: What Is Science?
The Crumbling of Nineteenth-Century Illusions
Science Cannot be Reduced to Verifiable Predictions
Exploring Forms of Thought About the World
The Evolving Worldview
The Rules of the Game and Commensurability
Why is Science Reliable?
In Praise of Uncertainty
Nine: Between Cultural Relativism and Absolute Thought
Ten: Can We Understand the World Without Gods?
The Conflict
Eleven: Prescientific Thought
The Nature of Mythical-Religious Thought
The Different Functions of the Divine
Conclusion
Notes
Bibliography
Index
Illustration Credits
Acknowledgments
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