The Reception of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology in Aristotle, the Doxography, and Beyond
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/9789004443358_011" target="_blank" >10.1163/9789004443358_011</a>
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
The Reception of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology in Aristotle, the Doxography, and Beyond
Original language description
Almost the entire Presocratic cosmology is not known directly from the works of the ancient Greek cosmologists themselves, but only from its rendering in Aristotle and in the doxography. Their frame of reference was the spherical earth, as it is also for the authors of modern handbooks, translations, and interpretations. The spherical earth bias makes it difficult to realize that on a flat earthconcepts like time, geography, climate, falling, the celestial axis, and the distances of the heavenly bodies are different from what we are used to on a spherical earth. Due to the spherical earth bias, both the ancient and the modern reception of Presocratic flat earth cosmology are therefore subject to several misunderstandings. In this chapter, some distinctive features of the Presocratic world picture of the flat earth and various examples of the main difficulties and misunderstandings inherent in its reception are presented and discussed.
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA15-08890S" target="_blank" >GA15-08890S: The intertwinement of flat earth cosmology and meteorology in ancient Ionian philosophy</a><br>
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P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
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Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought
ISBN
978-90-04-31817-5
Number of pages of the result
34
Pages from-to
289-322
Number of pages of the book
492
Publisher name
Brill
Place of publication
Leiden
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