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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Book 2018the 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.. Th

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Xenophanes’ Cosmologyr, his bizarre original statements would have led to misunderstandings on the part of the doxographers. One might add: as well as confusion among modern scholars. Most of Xenophanes’ cosmological teachings have come to us through the reports of later authors. Only one of them is documented by a quotation from his poem:

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Book 2018 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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Preliminaries on Sources and Methodology,urd’s .. For the most relevant chapter of Aëtius’ . we have now at our disposal Mansfeld and Runia’s . II.2, and for the confrontation of pseudo-Plutarch’s and Stobaeus’ versions of Aëtius in general Bottler’s .. We must be very grateful to the scholars who have provided us with this essential material.

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2509-310X 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.978-3-030-07292-6978-3-319-97052-3Series ISSN 2509-310X Series E-ISSN 2509-3118

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Two Appendices: Cosmas Indicopleustes and Samuel Birley Rowbothamratio of the gnomon to the shadow of its equinox, and (2) by the length of the longest or shortest day (or night) at the solstice, or by their ratio.” Sometimes, the term is used as a synonym for ‘zone,’ to divide the spherical earth from north to south into parallel zones of equal width. In this sense, it was used in Chap. ., Fig. 8.2c.

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