Geometry : the third book of foundations / Michel Serres ; translated by Randolph Burks.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Serres, Michel, author.

Contributor:

Burks, Randolph, translator.

Standardized Title:

Origines de la géometrie. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Geometry--History.

Geometry.

History.

Mathematics, Greek.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

lvii, 217 pages ; 21 cm

Place of Publication:

London, UK ; New York, NY, USA : Bloomsbury Academic, 2017.

Contents:

Part 1 Customs and Laws 1

1 First in history: Anaximander 3

Spaces without exclusion: Juridical origins 3

2 First in the rite: The royal victim 37

Spaces of exclusion: Political origins 37

3 First in dialectic: The interlocutor 71

Spaces of exclusion: Discursive origins 71

4 The point at noon 93

Part 2 Nature 95

5 First in history: Thales 97

From the pyramid to the tetrahedron: The optical origin 97

From Diogenes to Thales: The ethical origin 114

From the sun to the earth: The astronomical origin 130

6 First in philosophy: The ignorant slave boy 161

From Pythagoras to Zeno: The algorithmic origin 161

7 First in logic: The element 177

The automatic origin and the return to sociopolitical origins 177

Part 3 Conclusion 191

8 The measurement of the earth: Herodotus 193.

Notes:

Originally published in French as: Les origines de la géometrie : tiers livre des fondations / Michel Serres (Paris : Editions Julliard, 1993).

Other Format:

Online version: Serres, Michel. Geometry.

ISBN:

9781474281409

1474281400

OCLC:

949819828