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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.M. Schofield is the author of 'The Presocratic Philosophers: A Critical History with a Selcetion of Texts', published 1984 under ISBN 9780521254441 and ISBN 0521254442.
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