‎ROBIN, LÉON.‎
‎La pensée grecque et les origines de l'esprit scientifique. Avec une carte hors texte.‎

‎Paris, La Renaissance du Livre, 1923. 8vo. Orig. wrappers. Uncut, some browning, but in good condition. XXI,(3),480 pp.‎

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‎First edition. Has a fold-out map of the ancient Mediterranean world. Published in the series 'Bibliothèque de Synthèse Historique: L'Évolution de l'Humanité', edited by Heri Berr, who also provides the book with an introduction ('Avant-Propos').The author, Leon Robin - a respected connoisseur of ancient Greek philosophy and celebrated translator of Plato into French, laying the ground for a whole generation's understanding of the philosopher - examines in this work one of the first important developments in the history of Western thought, i. e. the rise of 'the Greek thought and the origins of the scientific spirit', as suggested by the title he, therefore, follows the evolution of ideas from their beginning in the pre-cassical era to their decline in the post-Roman world. A classsical work in the tradition of the history of ideas. ‎