Thales’s Conception of the Earth
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
<a href="https://www.pdcnet.org/ancientphil/content/ancientphil_2025_0045_0001_0001_0019" target="_blank" >https://www.pdcnet.org/ancientphil/content/ancientphil_2025_0045_0001_0001_0019</a>
DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.5840/ancientphil202545111" target="_blank" >10.5840/ancientphil202545111</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Thales’s Conception of the Earth
Original language description
Aristotle ascribes to Thales of Miletus the notion of the Earth resting on water. However, in archaic Ionian cosmologies the Earth was not viewed as a cosmic body resting on physical support. The very motif is likely to have originated in the Near East. If Aristotle claims that this was the oldest conception of stability of the Earth it is possible that Thales may have been associated with it anachronistically.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>SC</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the SCOPUS database
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/GA22-15785S" target="_blank" >GA22-15785S: The Development of Presocratic Cosmologies and Its Implications for Conceptions of the Classical Era</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
Ancient Philosophy
ISSN
0740-2007
e-ISSN
2154-4689
Volume of the periodical
45
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
19
Pages from-to
1-19
UT code for WoS article
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EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85217133995