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When the Earth Was Flat: Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology de Dirk L. Couprie

When the Earth Was Flat: Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology: Historical & Cultural Astronomy

Autor Dirk L. Couprie
en Limba Engleză Hardback – 12 noi 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 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.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9783319970516
ISBN-10: 3319970518
Pagini: 410
Ilustrații: XXXI, 361 p. 152 illus., 71 illus. in color.
Dimensiuni: 155 x 235 mm
Greutate: 0.73 kg
Ediția:1st ed. 2018
Editura: Springer International Publishing
Colecția Springer
Seria Historical & Cultural Astronomy

Locul publicării:Cham, Switzerland

Cuprins

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.

Recenzii

“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)

Notă biografică

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).

Textul de pe ultima copertă

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.

Caracteristici

Discusses ancient theories of a flat Earth with surprising new insights and interpretations Contrasts early Greek philosophy with ancient Chinese concepts Numerous images visualize ancient cosmology