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Couprie, Dirk L |
When the Earth Was Flat |
I09154 |
2018 |
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Couprie, Dirk L |
Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology |
I08430 |
2011 |
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| Title | When the Earth Was Flat : Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology |
| Author(s) | Couprie, Dirk L |
| Publication | Cham, Springer International Publishing, 2018. |
| Description | XXXI, 361 p. 152 illus., 71 illus. in color : online resource |
| Abstract Note | 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 |
| ISBN,Price | 9783319970523 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. ASTRONOMY
2. Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
3. ASTROPHYSICS
4. EBOOK
5. EBOOK - SPRINGER
6. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
7. METAPHYSICS
8. PHYSICS
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| Title | Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology : From Thales to Heraclides Ponticus |
| Author(s) | Couprie, Dirk L |
| Publication | New York, NY, Springer New York, 2011. |
| Description | XXXIV, 262 p : online resource |
| Abstract Note | In Miletus, about 550 B.C., together with our world-picture cosmology was born. This book tells the story. In Part One the reader is introduced in the archaic world-picture of a flat earth with the cupola of the celestial vault onto which??the celestial bodies are attached. One of the subjects treated in that context is the riddle of the tilted celestial axis. This part also contains an extensive chapter on archaic astronomical instruments.??Part Two??shows how Anaximander (610-547 B.C.) blew up this archaic world-picture and replaced it by a new one that is essentially still ours. He taught that the celestial bodies orbit at different distances and that the earth floats unsupported in space. This makes him the founding father of cosmology.??Part Three??discusses topics that completed the new picture??described by Anaximander. Special attention is paid to the confrontation between Anaxagoras and Aristotle on the question whether the earth is flat or spherical, and on the battle??between Aristotle and Heraclides Ponticus on the question whether the universe is finite or infinite. ???In this book, Dirk L. Couprie presents his efforts at clarifying the views of the pioneers of theoretical cosmology. It covers the crucial period from about the middle of the sixth until the middle of the fourth century B.C., with its focus on the magnificent figure of Anaximander. The book by Dirk Couprie constitutes an important and in several respects indispensable contribution to this field.??? Dmitri Panchenko St. Petersburg State University |
| ISBN,Price | 9781441981165 |
| Keyword(s) | 1. COSMOLOGY
2. EBOOK
3. EBOOK - SPRINGER
4. History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
5. Philosophy and science
6. PHILOSOPHY OF SCIENCE
7. PHYSICS
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