Kitap 2
5.2
Those who write on the science of Geography should trust entirely for the arrangement of the subject they are engaged on to the geometers, who have measured the whole earth; they in their turn to astronomers; and these again to natural philosophers. Now natural philosophy is one of the perfect sciences.ἡ δὲ φυσικὴ ἀοͅετὴ τις. We learn from the work entitled De Placitis Philosophorum, commonly attributed to Plutarch, that the Stoics dignified with the name of ἀοͅετὴ, the three sciences of Physics, Ethics, and Logic, φυσικὴ,?̓ηθικὴ, λογικὴ. The exact meaning of ἀοͅετὴ in these instances it is impossible to give, and Strabo’s own explanation is perhaps the best that can be had; we have here rendered it, perfect science, for want of a better phrase.
5.2
The perfect sciences they define as those which, depending on no external hypothesis, have their origin, and the evidence of their propositions, in themselves. Here are a few of the facts established by natural philosophers.φυσικοὶ.
