Historical & Cultural Astronomy

Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology

By: Dirk L. Couprie

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Hardcover | 12 November 2018

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396 Pages

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Spherical versus Flat

Foreword

Acknowledgements

References

Introduction

Chapter 1 Preliminaries on Sources and Methodology

Sources

Methodology

References

Part One Ancient Greece

Chapter 2 Peculiarities of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology

The shape of the earth

Arguments concerning the shape of the earth

Geographical issues

The tilt of the celestial axis

The alleged tilt of the earth

Climatological issues

Falling on a flat earth

Distance of the heavens

Temporal issues

References

Chapter 3 Anaximander's Images

Introduction

The cosmic tree

The tilted tree

The reversal in the relationship between air and fire

Tamed fire

Turning wheels

Two images for escaping fire

Tilted wheels

References

Chapter 4 Anaximander's Phenomenological Astronomy

Closing fire spots

Phases of the moon

Lunar eclipses

Solar eclipses

References

Chapter 5 Anaximander's Numbers

Introduction

An ordered universe

Anaximander's numbers of the heavenly bodies

Tannery and the standard interpretation

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"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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