Hidden Bibliographic Details
| ISBN: | 9783319970523
3319970526
9783319970516
3319970518
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| Digital file characteristics: | text file PDF
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| Notes: | Includes bibliographical references.
Online resource; title from PDF title page (SpringerLink, viewed November 14, 2018).
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| Summary: | 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.
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| Other form: | Print version: Couprie, Dirk L., 1940- When the Earth was flat. Cham, Switzerland : Springer, 2018 3319970518 9783319970516
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| Standard no.: | 10.1007/978-3-319-97052-3
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