Page 3 - Cognition and Thinking of the history of Science and Technology

From Mythology to the Logos

• Scientific thought was born during the

6 c. BCE in Greek towns of Asia Minor,
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when the pre-Socratic philosophers

explored rational ways instead of
Mythology to explain nature.

• Their rationality was mixed with the
supernatural.

• Philosophers sought for the ultimate

explanation of the Whole and they
based this explanation on one single

element.

• The quest of the pre-Socratics lead to
the mathematical abstraction and to

the demonstrative method that

characterises science
• This abstraction lead to the

Pythagorean concept that the Cosmos

is based on immaterial numbers.

Thales, the first philosopher