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

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...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Couprie, Dirk L. (Autor)
Autor Corporativo: SpringerLink (Online service)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2011.
Edición:1st ed. 2011.
Colección:Astrophysics and Space Science Library, 374
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Acceso en línea:Texto Completo

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505 0 |a 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.-. 
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