In the Antiquity, Philosophy meant Physics, Mathematics, Chemistry and all sciences. They all formed the general subject of philosophy
no. sorry but that's not entirely true. there was a real if intuitive conscience about the distinctions of the science realms. I will say they all formed the general subject of what the philosophy studies, what is quite if subtlely different, even so it's always true.
So, biology and physics are part of philosophy as well.
a posteriori (common meaning not kantian meaning) interpretation again. historically to be a mathematician and to be a natural scientist was very different in Ancient Greece. After all it is what makes the difference between Plato and Aristotle, as more than certainly you know it, Burn.
sorry but history of mathematics has begun in Aegypt and Sumer some centuries before anyone spoke Greek!!! you're well documented but allow me to not sharing the interpretation you gives to the documents.
No offenses intented.
PS: you're right i meant Anaxagoras and not Anaxamandros... <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/shame.gif" alt="" />
