CLA160H1 Lecture Notes - Lucretius, Epicurus, Eudoxus Of Cnidus
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Supply name or tern in response to given definition or identification. List of names will be posted on portal. Choice of 3 passages (lucretius, other authors down to and including aristotle) Choose 1, identify author and title then discuss the passage"s significance for history of science and/or for the relationship between the science and literature. Complete list of authors and texts will be posted on blackboard. No essay structure needed, but do write in full sentences. Try to connect/contrast chosen passage to other passages and ideas. Plato had an insistence on the importance of mathematical relations in the organization of the universe. Pre-socratics only put the idea of elements out there, didn"t look at the differences between them. Atomists never went into mathematical or geometric detail. Plato"s idea of all things being composed of regular solids. Earth is a cube because it is so solid.
