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  title info:
    title: When the Earth Was Flat
    sub title: Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology
  name:
    name part: Couprie, Dirk L.
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
    role:
      role term: aut
    role:
      role term: http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut
  name:
    name part: SpringerLink (Online service)
  type of resource: text
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: gw
    date issued: 2018
    edition: 1st ed. 2018.
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: electronic
    form: electronic resource
    reformatting quality: access
    form: remote
    extent: XXXI, 361 p. 152 illus., 71 illus. in color. online resource.
  abstract: 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.
  table of contents: 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: by Dirk L. Couprie.
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy
  subject:
    topic: Astrophysics
  subject:
    topic: Physics
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  subject:
    topic: Astronomy, Astrophysics and Cosmology
  subject:
    topic: History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics
  subject:
    topic: Metaphysics
  classification: QB1-991
  classification: QB460-466
  classification: 520
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    title info:
      title: Springer eBooks
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    title info:
      title: Historical & Cultural Astronomy
  identifier: 9783319970523
  identifier: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-97052-3
  record info:
    record creation date: 181101
    record change date: 20191022092942.0
    record identifier: 978-3-319-97052-3