Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology

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Beschreibung

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.

Zusammenfassung

Contains over one hundred pictures to elucidate the text, many of which are originally drawn by the author

Provides readers with a comprehensive treatment of archaic astronomical instruments and groundbreaking interpretations for how they might have been used

Provides dozens of challenging new interpretations and historical perspectives on ancient Greek cosmology

Includes supplementary material: [...]

Inhaltsverzeichnis

The Archaic World-Picture.- Archaic Astronomical Instruments.- How Thales Was Able to Predict the Solar Eclipse of 28 May 585 B.C..- The Shape of the Earth According to Thales.- The Riddle of the Celestial Axis.- The First Map of the Earth.- Anaximander, and the Discovery of Space.- Anaximander, A Survey of his Ideas.- The Discovery of Space: Anaximander's Cosmology.- Anaximander's Numbers: The Dimensions of the Universe.- The Visualization of Anaximander's World-Picture.- Bellows or Lightning? A Curious Terminology Explained.- Critique of an Alleged Cosmic Architecture.- A Survey from Anaximander to Aristarchus.- With Fear For His Own Life: Anaxagoras as a Cosmologist.- The Sun at the Horizon: Anaxagoras' Argument for a Flat Earth.- The Sun is as Big as the Peloponnesus.- The Dodecahedron, or the Shape of the Earth According to Plato.- Fear of Falling: Aristotle on the Shape of the Earth.- Heraclides Ponticus and the Infinite Universe.-

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2011
Fachbereich:	Astronomie
Genre:	Physik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Buch
Reihe:	Astrophysics and Space Science Library
Inhalt:	xxxiv 262 S.
ISBN-13:	9781441981158
ISBN-10:	1441981152
Sprache:	Englisch
Herstellernummer:	80025818
Ausstattung / Beilage:	HC gerader Rücken kaschiert
Einband:	Gebunden
Autor:	Couprie, Dirk L.
Hersteller:	Springer New York Springer US, New York, N.Y. Astrophysics and Space Science Library
Maße:	241 x 160 x 20 mm
Von/Mit:	Dirk L. Couprie
Erscheinungsdatum:	06.04.2011
Gewicht:	0,611 kg

Artikel-ID: 107218733