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  1. Philosophy in fragments: Cultivating philosophic thinking with the presocratics.Daniel Silvermintz - 2009 - Metaphilosophy 40 (5):689-701.
    Abstract: This article presents a strategy for introducing Presocratic thought to students in a manner that is both engaging and relevant. The first section addresses students' reactions to the claim that the Presocratics were the first philosophers. The second section considers how the fragmentary state of Presocratic thought does not hinder its comprehension. The third section proposes a classroom exercise for testing the scientific merits of each of the Presocratic theories. The final section proposes the use of a mock trial (...)
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  • The radius astronomicus in England.John J. Roche - 1981 - Annals of Science 38 (1):1-32.
    This survey traces the history of the astronomer's cross staff on the Continent from Levi ben Gerson to Gemma Frisius, in England from John Dee to John Greaves, and again on the Continent from Tycho Brahe to Adrian Metius. The emphasis throughout is on sources and influences, on distinguishing the various kinds of cross staff, and on clarifying terminology.
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  • Black Athena, Afro-centrism, and the history of science.Robert Palter - 1993 - History of Science 31 (3):227-287.
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  • Superlative Achievement and Comparative Neglect: Alexandrian Medical Science and Modern Historical Research.James Longrigg - 1981 - History of Science 19 (3):155-200.
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  • Thought Experiments: Determining Their Meaning.Igal Galili - 2009 - Science & Education 18 (1):1-23.
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  • The Analogy between Light and Sound in the History of Optics from the Ancient Greeks to Isaac Newton. Part 1.Olivier Darrigol - 2010 - Centaurus 52 (2):117-155.
    Analogies between hearing and seeing already existed in ancient Greek theories of perception. The present paper follows the evolution of such analogies until the rise of 17th century optics, with due regard to the diversity of their origins and nature but with particular emphasis on their bearing on the physical concepts of light and sound. Whereas the old Greek analogies were only side effects of the unifying concepts of perception, the analogies of the 17th century played an important role in (...)
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  • The role of inversion in the genesis, development and the structure of scientific knowledge.Nagarjuna G. - manuscript
    The main thrust of the argument of this thesis is to show the possibility of articulating a method of construction or of synthesis--as against the most common method of analysis or division--which has always been (so we shall argue) a necessary component of scientific theorization. This method will be shown to be based on a fundamental synthetic logical relation of thought, that we shall call inversion--to be understood as a species of logical opposition, and as one of the basic monadic (...)
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