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When the Earth Was Flat

Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology - Previously published in hardcover
BuchKartoniert, Paperback
361 Seiten
Englisch
Springererschienen am01.02.2019Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
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 last chapter shows that, inadvertently, ancient arguments and ideas return in the curious modern flat earth cosmologies.mehr
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Produkt

KlappentextThis 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 last chapter shows that, inadvertently, ancient arguments and ideas return in the curious modern flat earth cosmologies.
Details
ISBN/GTIN978-3-030-07292-6
ProduktartBuch
EinbandartKartoniert, Paperback
Verlag
Erscheinungsjahr2019
Erscheinungsdatum01.02.2019
AuflageSoftcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2018
ReiheHistorical & Cultural Astronomy
Seiten361 Seiten
SpracheEnglisch
Gewicht605 g
IllustrationenXXXI, 361 p. 152 illus., 71 illus. in color.
Artikel-Nr.53433246

Inhalt/Kritik

Inhaltsverzeichnis
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.mehr
Kritik
"Highly specialized and learned exposition much is made of the textual, conceptual, and ... relevant literature. The author is also to be congratulated on his clarity and thoroughness." (David W. Hughes, The Observatory, Vol. 139 (1270), June, 2019)mehr

Autor

Dirk L. Couprie is a retired scholar (University of Leiden). Doctoral dissertation at University of Amsterdam with a thesis on Anaximander.Current position: leader of a project on Presocratic Philosophy at the philosophical department of the faculty of philosophy and arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.Areas of work: Presocratic philosophy, more especially Presocratic cosmology; also ancient cosmology in a broader perspective (ancient Egyptian, ancient Jewish, ancient Chinese).