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When the Earth Was Flat

Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology

Medium: Buch
ISBN: 978-3-319-97051-6
Verlag: Springer
Erscheinungstermin: 12.11.2018
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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 discussion of Aristotle’s proofs that the earth is spherical. The second part explains and discusses the ancient Chinese system called  gai tian . The last chapter shows that, inadvertently, ancient arguments and ideas return in the curious modern flat earth cosmologies.


Produkteigenschaften


  • Artikelnummer: 9783319970516
  • Medium: Buch
  • ISBN: 978-3-319-97051-6
  • Verlag: Springer
  • Erscheinungstermin: 12.11.2018
  • Sprache(n): Englisch
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage 2018
  • Serie: Historical & Cultural Astronomy
  • Produktform: Gebunden, HC runder Rücken kaschiert
  • Gewicht: 758 g
  • Seiten: 361
  • Format (B x H x T): 160 x 241 x 27 mm
  • Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
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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.