Titlebook: When the Earth Was Flat; Studies in Ancient G Dirk L. Couprie Book 2018 Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2018 Ancient Greek cosmology.Ancient

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Dirk L. Couprie. Among the wealth of explanatory material in this book are examples of users’ reports of problems in the vacuum system of the JEM, such as the occurrence of a micro-discharge and the back-streaming of the diffusion pump (DP) oil vapor. .This work is a valuable resource for researchers who use the t

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Dirk L. Couprieartoum (KHA: annual prcp = 130 mm), Kassala (KAS: annual prcp = 280 mm), and Gedaref (GED: annual prcp = 600 mm), so that the stations lie along a relatively intense northwest to southeast rainfall gradient of approximately 2.2 mm/km/yr. The analysis underscores the type of extreme seasonal and inte

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Dirk L. Couprie 1987 on the seventieth anniversary of the Bolshevik Revolution made no reference to the negative side of Bolshevism: the creation of the Cheka, the dispersal of the Constituent Assembly in 1918, the Red Terror, the curbing of the power of the soviets and trade unions, the banning of factions within

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Dirk L. Couprienecessity rather than choice: to recognise that there is such a thing as a ‘law of nature’ and to fail to abide by it is to fly in the face of a standard that is intrinsic to humanity. Secondly, and as a consequence of this, it is claimed that adherence to natural law is supremely appropriate for hu

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Anaxagoras on the Milky Way and Lunar Eclipsesrly that of a flat earth. In Chap. ., some consequences will be drawn regarding the light and phases of the moon. Chap. . will address the question of how Anaxagoras could have measured the distance of the sun.

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Introduction,t the earth is a sphere. Yet, in daily life we act as if the earth is flat. When we travel from one city to another, or from one country to another, we do not use a globe to find our way, but look on a two-dimensional map as if the earth were flat. The idea of a spherical earth is as counter-intuiti

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Preliminaries on Sources and Methodology,and Most’s ., and incidentally Dumont’s ., Reale’s ., Mansfeld’s ., and Gemelli Marciano’s .. Additionally, for Thales, Anaximander, and Anaximenes I used the two volumes of Wöhrle’s . published so far, for Xenophanes Lesher’s . and Untersteiner’s ., for Anaxagoras Gershenson and Greenberg’s . and C

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Peculiarities of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmologyn the ancient Chinese . system, everything, except the meaning of “falling,” is different. In the present chapter, there is necessarily some overlap with my earlier publications, but this is inevitable to show the differences between the two systems.