When the Earth Was Flat Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology /

• Main Author: Couprie, Dirk L. (Author, http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut)
• Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Format: Electronic eBook
• Language: English
• Published: Cham : Springer International Publishing : Imprint: Springer, 2018.
• Edition: 1st ed. 2018.
• Series: Historical & Cultural Astronomy,
• Subjects: Astronomy.; Astrophysics.; Physics.; Metaphysics.; Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology.; History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics.

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 d...