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题名/责任者:

How to innovate : an ancient guide to creating thinking / Aristotle [and others] ; selected, translated, and introduced by Armand D'Angour.

出版发行项:

Princeton : Princeton University Press, [2021]

ISBN:

9780691213736

载体形态项:

xxi, 138 pages ; 18 cm

附加个人名称:

Aristotle. Works. Selections. English, editor.

附加个人名称:

Aristotle. Works. Selections, editor.

附加个人名称:

D'Angour, Armand, editor, translator, writer of introduction.

论题主题:

Technological innovations-Greece-Early works to 1800.

中图法分类号:

T-095.45

一般附注:

Includes selections of works by Aristotle, Athenaeus, and Diodorus.

书目附注:

Includes bibliographical references.

摘要附注:

"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 canons, drama, lifelike sculpture, and competitive athletics. None of this happened by accident. Recognizing the power of the new and trying to understand and promote the conditions that make it possible, the Greeks were the first to write about innovation and even the first to record a word for forging something new. In short, the Greeks "invented" innovation itself-and they still have a great deal to teach us about it. How to Innovate is an engaging and entertaining introduction to key ideas about-and examples of-innovation and creativite thinking from ancient Greece. Armand D'Angour provides lively new translations of selections from Aristotle, Diodorus, and Athenaeus, with the original Greek text on facing pages. These writings illuminate and illustrate timeless principles of creating something new-borrowing or adapting existing ideas or things, cross-fertilizing disparate elements, or criticizing and disrupting current conditions. From the true story of Archimedes's famous "Eureka!" moment, to Aristotle's thoughts on physical change and political innovation, to accounts of how disruption and competition drove invention in Greek warfare and the visual arts, How to Innovate is filled with valuable insights about how change happens-and how to bring it about"--

语种附注:

In English and Greek.

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