When the Earth Was Flat : Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology Paperback / softback
by Dirk L. Couprie
Part of the Historical & Cultural Astronomy series
Paperback / softback
Description
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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:361 pages, 71 Illustrations, color; 81 Illustrations, black and white; XXXI, 361 p. 152 illus., 71 i
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:01/02/2019
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- ISBN:9783030072926
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:361 pages, 71 Illustrations, color; 81 Illustrations, black and white; XXXI, 361 p. 152 illus., 71 i
- Publisher:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
- Publication Date:01/02/2019
- Category:
- ISBN:9783030072926
