When the Earth Was Flat

Studies in Ancient Greek and Chinese Cosmology

By:

Dirk L. Couprie

Format:

Hardback

Series:

Historical & Cultural Astronomy

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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.

Author Biography:

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).

Release date Australia

November 12th, 2018

Author

Dirk L. Couprie

Series

Historical & Cultural Astronomy

Pages

361

Edition

1st ed. 2018

Audience

Professional & Vocational

Illustrations

71 Illustrations, color; 81 Illustrations, black and white; XXXI, 361 p. 152 illus., 71 illus. in color.

ISBN-13

9783319970516

Product ID

28222267

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