Program

Research Programs: Fellowships for College Teachers and Independent Scholars

Period of Performance

9/1/1972 - 6/30/1973

Funding Totals

$11,250.00 (approved)
$11,250.00 (awarded)


Mechanism and Myth in Early Greek Philosophy and Science

FAIN: FB-11169-72

Boston University (Boston, MA 02215-1390)
Steven S. Tigner (Project Director: September 1972 to present)

To study the mechanism and myth in early Greek philosophy and science which will cover that period in Greek thought stretching from the early mythical beginnings in Homer and Hesiod down to the emergence of mechanistic atomism in Leucippus and Meocritus toward the end of the 5th century B.C.