When the Earth Was Flat

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Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology

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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.

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.

Produktdetails

Erscheinungsdatum

01. Februar 2019

Sprache

englisch

Untertitel

Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology. Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2018. XXXI, 361 p. 152 illus. , 71 illus. in color. Previously published in hardcover. Sprache: Englisch.

Auflage

Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 2018

Seitenanzahl

396

Reihe

Historical & Cultural Astronomy

Autor/Autorin

Dirk L. Couprie

Illustrationen

XXXI, 361 p. 152 illus., 71 illus. in color.

Verlag/Hersteller

Springer International Publishing

Produktart

kartoniert

Abbildungen

XXXI, 361 p. 152 illus., 71 illus. in color.

Gewicht

598 g

Größe (L/B/H)

235/155/22 mm

Sonstiges

Previously published in hardcover

ISBN

9783030072926

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Portrait

Dirk L. Couprie

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).

Pressestimmen

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)

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