Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology From Thales to Heraclides Ponticus /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Couprie, Dirk L. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
• Έκδοση: 1.
• Σειρά: Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 374
• Θέματα: Physics.; Philosophy and science.; Cosmology.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.; Philosophy of Science.

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 treate...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• The Archaic World-Picture
• Archaic Astronomical Instruments
• How Thales Was Able to Predict the Solar Eclipse of 28 May 585 B.C.
• The Shape of the Earth According to Thales
• The Riddle of the Celestial Axis
• The First Map of the Earth
• Anaximander, and the Discovery of Space
• Anaximander, A Survey of his Ideas
• The Discovery of Space: Anaximander’s Cosmology
• Anaximander’s Numbers: The Dimensions of the Universe
• The Visualization of Anaximander’s World-Picture
• Bellows or Lightning? A Curious Terminology Explained
• Critique of an Alleged Cosmic Architecture
• A Survey from Anaximander to Aristarchus
• With Fear For His Own Life: Anaxagoras as a Cosmologist
• The Sun at the Horizon: Anaxagoras’ Argument for a Flat Earth
• The Sun is as Big as the Peloponnesus
• The Dodecahedron, or the Shape of the Earth According to Plato
• Fear of Falling: Aristotle on the Shape of the Earth
• Heraclides Ponticus and the Infinite Universe.-.