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...

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.