The Greek conception of Nature

https://www.jstor.org/stable/2179890?seq=1

M. T. McClure
The Philosophical Review
Vol. 43, No. 2 (Mar., 1934), pp. 109-124
DOI: 10.2307/2179890
https://www.jstor.org/stable/2179890

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