Spherical versus Flat
Foreword
Acknowledgements
References
Introduction
Chapter 1 Preliminaries on Sources and Methodology
Sources
Methodology
References
Part One Ancient Greece
Chapter 2 Peculiarities of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology
The shape of the earth
Arguments concerning the shape of the earth
Geographical issues
The tilt of the celestial axis
The alleged tilt of the earth
Climatological issues
Falling on a flat earth
Distance of the heavens
Temporal issues
References
Chapter 3 Anaximander's Images
Introduction
The cosmic tree
The tilted tree
The reversal in the relationship between air and fire
Tamed fire
Turning wheels
Two images for escaping fire
Tilted wheels
References
Chapter 4 Anaximander's Phenomenological Astronomy
Closing fire spots
Phases of the moon
Lunar eclipses
Solar eclipses
References
Chapter 5 Anaximander's Numbers
Introduction
An ordered universe
Anaximander's numbers of the heavenly bodies
Tannery and the standard interpretation
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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).
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