{"_index":"sire","_type":"_doc","_id":"857","_score":null,"_source":{"id":857,"authors_free":[{"id":1261,"entry_id":857,"agent_type":null,"is_normalised":null,"person_id":304,"institution_id":null,"role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"},"free_name":"Robinson, John","free_first_name":"John","free_last_name":"Robinson","norm_person":{"id":304,"first_name":"John","last_name":"Robinson","full_name":"Robinson, John","short_ident":"","is_classical_name":null,"dnb_url":"","viaf_url":"","db_url":"","from_claudius":null}}],"entry_title":"The Framework of Greek Cosmology","main_title":{"title":"The Framework of Greek Cosmology"},"abstract":"The treatises which form the Hippocratic Corpus are not the work of \r\na single individual, and there is abundant evidence that they were itten over a period of at least two hundred years. It is, there ore, essential, in attempting to reconstruct the scientific world \r\nview of the early period, that we rely so far as possible on treatises \r\nbelonging to this period. Unfortunately, in the present state of \r\nHippocratic studies, it is impossible to date these works with any \r\nexactitude. On the other hand, certain of them belong pretty \r\nclearly to the fifth century; and it seems fairly well established that \r\nthe view of the constitution of man which most of them assume \r\ndates from the time of Alcmaeon, who flourished around the turn \r\nof the century. Since this view is based upon an analogy between \r\nmicrocosm and macrocosm, the processes involved in sickness and \r\nhealth reflect on a small scale the greater processes which constitute \r\nthe life of the cosmos as a whole; thus, indirectly, these treatises \r\nilluminate in striking ways aspects of the larger world-view \r\nimplicit in the fragments of the early cosmologists, but obscured \r\nby the fewness of these fragments and the imperfect state in which \r\nthey have been preserved. In the present study they are used to \r\nilluminate just such obscurities. [pp. 676 f.]","btype":3,"date":"1961","language":"English","online_url":"","online_resources":"https:\/\/uni-koeln.sciebo.de\/s\/zGcRmbkt0tSeZdr","doi_url":null,"categories":[],"authors":[{"id":304,"full_name":"Robinson, John","role":{"id":1,"role_name":"author"}}],"book":null,"booksection":null,"article":{"id":857,"journal_id":null,"journal_name":"The Review of Metaphysics","volume":"14","issue":"4","pages":"676-684"}},"sort":["The Framework of Greek Cosmology"]}