When the Earth Was Flat

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Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology, Historical & Cultural Astronomy

ISBN: 3319970518
ISBN 13: 9783319970516
Autor: Couprie, Dirk L
Verlag: Springer Verlag GmbH
Umfang: xxxi, 361 S., 81 s/w Illustr., 71 farbige Illustr., 361 p. 152 illus., 71 illus. in color.
Erscheinungsdatum: 12.11.2018
Auflage: 1/2019
Produktform: Gebunden/Hardback
Einband: Gebunden

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.

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Autorenporträt

Dirk L. Couprie is a retired scholar (University of Leiden). Doctoral dissertation at University of Amsterdam with a thesis on Anaximander.Current position: leader of a project on Presocratic Philosophy at the philosophical department of the faculty of philosophy and arts, University of West Bohemia in Pilsen.Areas of work: Presocratic philosophy, more especially Presocratic cosmology; also ancient cosmology in a broader perspective (ancient Egyptian, ancient Jewish, ancient Chinese).

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