When the Earth Was Flat Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology /

This book is a sequel to Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology (Springer 2011). With the help of many pictures, the reader is introduced into the way of thinking of ancient believers in a flat earth. The first part offers new interpretations of several Presocratic cosmologists and a critical d...

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Hlavní autor: Couprie, Dirk L. (Autor)
Médium: Elektronický zdroj E-kniha
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Cham : Springer International Publishing, 2018.
Vydání:1st ed. 2018.
Edice:Historical & Cultural Astronomy,
Témata:
Astronomy.
Astrophysics.
Physics.
Metaphysics.
ISBN:9783319970523
ISSN:2509-310X
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Obsah:
  • Introduction. - Preliminaries on Sources and Methodology
  • Part One Ancient Greece
  • Peculiarities of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology
  • Anaximander's Images
  • Anaximander's Phenomenological Cosmology
  • Anaximander's Numbers
  • Anaximenes' Cosmology
  • Xenophanes' Cosmology
  • Anaxagoras on The Milky Way and Lunar Eclipses
  • Anaxagoras on The Light and Phases of the Moon
  • Anaxagoras and the Measurement of the Sun and Moon
  • Aristotle's Arguments for the Sphericity of the Earth
  • Part Two Ancient China
  • An Ancient Chinese Cosmology: Main Features
  • An Ancient Chinese Flat Earth Cosmology. Details and Calculations
  • Ancient Chinese Versus Greek Flat Earth Cosmology
  • Two Appendices: Cosmas Indicopleustes and Samuel Birley Rowbotham
  • Quotations from Ancient Greek and Roman Authors
  • Quotations from the Zhou bi and Ancient Chinese Authors
  • Bibliography.

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