How to innovate : an ancient guide to creative thinking

Aristotle, author.

Book 2021

"What we can learn about fostering innovation and creative thinking in any field from some of the most inventive people of all times-- the ancient Greeks. When it comes to innovation and creative thinking, we are still catching up with the ancient Greeks. Between 800 and 300 BCE, they changed the world with astonishing inventions-- democracy, the alphabet, philosophy, logic, rhetoric, mathematical proof, rational medicine, coins, architectural ca...

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Creative ability Early works to 1800

Technological innovations Greece Early works to 1800

Technological innovations History

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Ancient wisdom for modern readers

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ISBN:

9780691213736

Description:

xxi, 138 pages ; 18 cm

Notes:

Includes selections from Aristotle's works, with additional excerpts from Athenaeus's The Learned Banqueteers and Diodorus's Library of History
Includes bibliographical references (pages 135-138)
Parallel text in English and ancient Greek with introduction in English

LCCN:

2021010048

Control Number:

3253806

Other Authors:

D'Angour, Armand, editor, translator, writer of introduction
container of (expression): Athenaeus, of Naucratis. Deipnosophistae. Selections. English. (D'Angour)
container of (expression): Athenaeus, of Naucratis. Deipnosophistae. Selections. Greek. (D'Angour)
container of (expression): Diodorus, Siculus. Bibliotheca historica. Selections. English (D'Angour)
container of (expression): Diodorus, Siculus. Bibliotheca historica. Selections. Greek. (D'Angour)
translation of: Aristotle. Works. Selections. English. (D'Angour)
translation of: Aristotle. Works. Selections. Greek. (D'Angour)

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