Heaven And Earth In Ancient Greek Cosmology
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Author | : Dirk L. Couprie |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 285 |
Release | : 2011-03-23 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 1441981160 |
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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 treated in that context is the riddle of the tilted celestial axis. This part also contains an extensive chapter on archaic astronomical instruments. Part Two shows how Anaximander (610-547 B.C.) blew up this archaic world-picture and replaced it by a new one that is essentially still ours. He taught that the celestial bodies orbit at different distances and that the earth floats unsupported in space. This makes him the founding father of cosmology. Part Three discusses topics that completed the new picture described by Anaximander. Special attention is paid to the confrontation between Anaxagoras and Aristotle on the question whether the earth is flat or spherical, and on the battle between Aristotle and Heraclides Ponticus on the question whether the universe is finite or infinite.
Author | : Dirk L. Couprie |
Publisher | : Springer |
Total Pages | : 361 |
Release | : 2018-11-01 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3319970526 |
Download When the Earth Was Flat Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
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 | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : Aeterna Press |
Total Pages | : 124 |
Release | : 1969 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : |
Download On the Heavens Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
On the Heavens (Greek: Περὶ οὐρανοῦ, Latin: De Caelo or De Caelo et Mundo) is Aristotle’s chief cosmological treatise: written in 350 BC it contains his astronomical theory and his ideas on the concrete workings of the terrestrial world. It should not be confused with the spurious work On the Universe (De mundo, also known as On the Cosmos).
Author | : Gary Urton |
Publisher | : University of Texas Press |
Total Pages | : 247 |
Release | : 2013-12-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 0292790511 |
Download At the Crossroads of the Earth and the Sky Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Above Misminay, the sky also is so divided by the alternation of the two axes of the Milky Way passing through the zenith. This mirror-image quadri-partition of terrestrial and celestial spheres is such that a point within one of the quarters of the earth is related to a point within the corresponding celestial quarter. The transition between the earth and the sky occurs at the horizon, where sacred mountains are related to topographic and celestial features. Based on fieldwork in Misminay, Peru, Gary Urton details a cosmology in which the Milky Way is central. This is the first study that provides a description and analysis of the astronomical and cosmological system in a contemporary community in the Americas. Separate chapters take up the sun, the moon, meteorological phenomena, the stars, and the planets. Star-to-star constellations, the "animal" dark-cloud constellations that cut through the Milky Way, and certain twilight- and midnight-zenith stars are analyzed in terms of their spatial and temporal integration within an indigenous cosmological framework. Urton breaks new ground by demonstrating the indigenous merging of such forms of "precise knowledge" as astronomy, meteorology, agriculture, and the correlation of astronomical and biological cycles within a single calendar system. More than sixty diagrams clarify this Quechua system of astronomy and relate it to more familiar principles of Western astronomy and cosmology.
Author | : Theocharis George Paterakis |
Publisher | : Theocharis George Paterakis |
Total Pages | : 59 |
Release | : |
Genre | : Juvenile Nonfiction |
ISBN | : |
Download Ancient Stories - The Mythology Behind the Sky Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Dive into the captivating world of ancient Greek mythology and uncover the timeless stories and beliefs that shaped our understanding of the universe. In this concise yet comprehensive book, you will unravel the most famous theories and myths about the creation of the world that dominated the thinking of the ancient Greeks for centuries. Embark on an enlightening odyssey through the realms of ancient Greek mythology and astronomy, and gain a deeper appreciation for the enduring legacy of these timeless tales and celestial wonders.
Author | : Aristotle |
Publisher | : Liverpool University Press |
Total Pages | : 283 |
Release | : 1995 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0856686638 |
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The first two books of Aristotle's On the Heavens (De Caelo) offer perspectives on the cosmology of a thinker whose ideas in this area were considered authoritative by many until the seventeenth century. This new translation and commentary provide the modern reader with the opportunity to appraise Aristotle's ideas in relation to the cosmologies of his predecessors. While tied to the thinking of the day, Aristotle nevertheless succeeded in placing cosmology on a new footing; indeed, as the commentary in this volume shows, his use of mathematics-style demonstration, along with his appeal to observation, in avoiding more standard forms of argument, resulted in a methodology that often shares common ground with today's cosmologies. Greek text, with facing-page English translation, introduction, notes and commentary.
Author | : Kyle Greenwood |
Publisher | : InterVarsity Press |
Total Pages | : 255 |
Release | : 2015-09-03 |
Genre | : Religion |
ISBN | : 0830898700 |
Download Scripture and Cosmology Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Kyle Greenwood introduces readers to ancient Near Eastern cosmology and the ways in which the Bible speaks within that context. He then traces the way the Bible was read through Aristotelian and Copernican cosmologies and discusses how its ancient conceptions should be understood in light of Scripture?s authority and contemporary science.
Author | : Alan C. Bowen |
Publisher | : BRILL |
Total Pages | : 783 |
Release | : 2020-02-17 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9004400567 |
Download Hellenistic Astronomy Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
In Hellenistic Astronomy: The Science in Its Contexts, renowned scholars address questions about what the ancient science of the heavens was and the numerous contexts in which it was pursued.
Author | : Jean-Claude Pecker |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 606 |
Release | : 2012-12-06 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 3662044412 |
Download Understanding the Heavens Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
The author, a well-known astronomer himself, describes the evolution of astronomical ideas, touching only lightly on most of the instrumental developments. Richly illustrated, the book starts with the astronomical ideas of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian philosophers, moves on to the Greek period and then on to the golden age of astronomy, that of Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler and Newton. Finally, Pecker concludes with modern theories of cosmology. Written with astronomy undergraduates in mind, this is a fascinating survey of astronomical thinking.
Author | : Ptolemy |
Publisher | : Princeton University Press |
Total Pages | : 712 |
Release | : 1998-11-08 |
Genre | : Science |
ISBN | : 0691002606 |
Download Ptolemy's Almagest Book in PDF, Epub and Kindle
Ptolemy's Almagest is one of the most influential scientific works in history. A masterpiece of technical exposition, it was the basic textbook of astronomy for more than a thousand years, and still is the main source for our knowledge of ancient astronomy. This translation, based on the standard Greek text of Heiberg, makes the work accessible to English readers in an intelligible and reliable form. It contains numerous corrections derived from medieval Arabic translations and extensive footnotes that take account of the great progress in understanding the work made in this century, due to the discovery of Babylonian records and other researches. It is designed to stand by itself as an interpretation of the original, but it will also be useful as an aid to reading the Greek text.