Format:
xxxi, 361 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Diagramme, Karten
ISBN:
9783319970516
,
3319970518
,
9783030072926
Series Statement:
Historical & cultural astronomy
Content:
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
Note:
Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9783319970523
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Couprie, Dirk L., 1940 - When the Earth Was Flat Cham : Springer, 2018 ISBN 9783319970523
Language:
English
Subjects:
Physics
Keywords:
Griechenland
;
China
;
Antike
;
Astronomie
;
Kosmologie
URL:
http://digitale-objekte.hbz-nrw.de/storage2/2019/03/06/file_12/8272528.pdf
