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When the Earth was flatstudies in An...

Couprie, Dirk L.

When the Earth was flatstudies in Ancient Greek and Chinese cosmology /

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	When the Earth was flatby Dirk L. Couprie.
Reminder of title:	studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese cosmology /
Author:	Couprie, Dirk L.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018.
Description:	xxxi, 361 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm.
Contained By:	Springer eBooks
Subject:	Cosmology, Ancient.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97052-3
ISBN:	9783319970523$q(electronic bk.)

When the Earth was flatstudies in Ancient Greek and Chinese cosmology /
Couprie, Dirk L.

When the Earth was flatstudies in Ancient Greek and Chinese cosmology /[electronic resource] :by Dirk L. Couprie. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2018. - xxxi, 361 p. :ill. (some col.), digital ;24 cm. - Historical & cultural astronomy,2509-310X. - Historical & cultural astronomy..

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.

ISBN: 9783319970523$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-319-97052-3doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

511850
Cosmology, Ancient.

LC Class. No.: BD495 / .C687 2018

Dewey Class. No.: 523.1

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