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Diogenes of apollonia7/25/2023 ![]() This article presents Diogenes' report and comments on the most significant passages of his vascular description. Preller, Historia philosophiae (4th ed., 1869), §§ 59-68 E. Diogenes of Apollonia was a pre-Socratic philosopher who lived in the 5th century BC and provided the first systematic and fairly truthful account of blood vessel architecture in man. Panzerbieter, Diogenes Apolloniates (1830), with philosophical dissertation J. Mullach, Fragmenta philosophorum Graecorum, i. His most important work was 11Epi cuo ew ( De natura), of which considerable fragments are extant (chiefly in Simplicius) it is possible that he wrote also Against the Sophists and On the Nature of Man, to which the well-known fragment about the veins would belong possibly these discussions were subdivisions of his great work.įragments in F. The air as the origin of all things is necessarily an eternal, imperishable substance, but as soul it is also necessarily endowed with consciousness." In fact, he belonged to the old Ionian school, whose doctrines he modified by the theories of his contemporary Anaxagoras, although he avoided his dualism. His chief advance upon the doctrines of Anaximenes is that he asserted air, the primal force, to be possessed of intelligence- "the air which stirred within him not only prompted, but instructed. Like Anaximenes, he believed air to be the one source of all being, and all other substances to be derived from it by condensation and rarefaction. The views of Diogenes are transferred in the Clouds (264 ff.) of Aristophanes to Socrates. ![]() There seems no doubt that he lived some time at Athens, where it is said that he became so unpopular (probably owing to his supposed atheistical opinions) that his life was in danger. Although of Dorian stock, he wrote in the Ionic dialect, like all the physiologi (physical philosophers). 460 B.C.), Greek natural philosopher, was a native of Apollonia in Crete. The publication will be useful for specialists in ancient cosmology, medicine, and other areas of early philosophy and science, as well as researchers with an interest in doxography.DIOGENES APOLLONIATES ( c. Diller H., Die philosophiegeschichtliche Stellung des Diogenes von Apollonia, Hermes, lxxvi (1941), 35981, p.366. ![]() He believed, with Anaximenes, that this substance was air and, with. An eclectic, he reverted to the Milesian tradition of a century earlier in seeking to explain the constitution of all matter in terms of a single basic stuff. Anatomical views of Diogenes) and Index locorum. Diogenes of Apollonia (djnz) (pln), 5th cent. Diogenes Laertius, Vita philosophorum IX, 57 II. Variant doxographical testimonia (those by Ps.-Plutarch, Stobaeus, Ps.-Galen, etc.) are usually quoted in full and discussed at some length in the commentary. Doxographical testimonia are subdivided in 1. The first section contains Fragments 1-12 (three more than in Diels-Kranz). Laks and differ from what we find in Diels-Kranz both in terms of their order and their content, with a few new pieces of evidence added and the context of the fragments and testimonia considerably expanded. The texts are arranged according to the principles proposed by A. The main body of the publication comprises the fragments, doxographical testimonia and doubtful testimonia. Building upon the great edition by André Laks (1983, 22008) it contains a Russian translation and commentaries on the few extant fragments of Diogenes’ writing(s?) and more extensive ancient testimonia about his life and teachings. Diogenes Apolloniates, (Diogenes ho Apolloniates), an eminent natural philosopher, who lived in the fifth century B. Summary/Abstract: The publication is dedicated to Diogenes of Apollonia, the "last Presocratic cosmologist" (fl. ![]() ![]() Published by: Новосибирский государственный университет Keywords: Early Greek science the philosophy of nature the history of medicine FRAGMENTS AND TESTIMONIA: Introduction, Russian translation and notes Author(s): Eugene Afonasin Diogenes main idea was that nature, the entire universe, is an indivisibly infinite, eternally living, and continuously moving substance he called, following. ![]()
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