Frederic Le Blay
Frederic Le Blay is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Nantes, France, and is a member of Centre Francois Viete (Epistemology, History of Sciences and Technology). He is a specialist of ancient medicine and meteorology, with his research focusing on the relationship between sciences and philosophy in the classical world and the heritage of ancient sciences in modern and contemporary Europe. He is the editor of Transmettre les savoirs dans les mondes...See more
Frederic Le Blay is Associate Professor and Chair of the Department of Classics at the University of Nantes, France, and is a member of Centre Francois Viete (Epistemology, History of Sciences and Technology). He is a specialist of ancient medicine and meteorology, with his research focusing on the relationship between sciences and philosophy in the classical world and the heritage of ancient sciences in modern and contemporary Europe. He is the editor of Transmettre les savoirs dans les mondes hellenistique et romain (2009), a collection of papers from international scholars dealing with ancient sciences and philosophy, and has been Scientific Director of ATLANTYS, an international research program aiming at shedding critical and analytical light on the grounds of collective representations dealing with the end of the world. See less
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