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Beginning with a long and extensively rewritten introduction surveying the predecessors of the Presocratics, this book traces the intellectual revolution initiated by Thales in the sixth century B.C. to its culmination in the metaphysics of Parmenides and the complex physical theories of Anaxagoras and the Atomists in the fifth century.Schofield, Malcolm is the author of 'Presocratic Philosophers A Critical History With a Selection of Texts', published 1984 under ISBN 9780521274555 and ISBN 0521274559.
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