Science before Socrates: Parmenides, Anaxagoras, and the New Astronomy

There is another review in HOPOS: The Journal of the International Society for the History of Philosophy of Science recently by Joseph G. Miller, Illinois Institute of TechnologyThe D. E. Hogg quote above is from a previous book, as Hogg is deceased. Nonetheless, it is still accurate.D. R. Dicks negative judgement of Presocratic astronomy has now been overturned by Daniel Graham. The existence of Presocratic science has been established.Graham pushes back the origins of science 150 years showing that it began with the discovery by Parmenides that the moon's light is borrowed from the sun.This paradigm shift appears as inevitable as when the Clovis barrier was broken long ago, and is likely to be contested as fiercely.As Robin Dunbar said in his book, The Trouble With Science, the scientific method is "fundamental to survival" and is necessarily practiced even by most birds and mammals.