The Reception of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology in Aristotle, the Doxography, and Beyond

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

The Reception of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology in Aristotle, the Doxography, and Beyond

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

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.

Název v anglickém jazyce

The Reception of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology in Aristotle, the Doxography, and Beyond

Popis výsledku anglicky

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.

Druh

C - Kapitola v odborné knize

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA15-08890S" target="_blank" >GA15-08890S: Propojení kosmologické koncepce ploché Země a meteorologie v antické iónské filosofii</a><br>

Návaznosti

P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)

Rok uplatnění

2021

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název knihy nebo sborníku

Brill’s Companion to the Reception of Presocratic Natural Philosophy in Later Classical Thought

ISBN

978-90-04-31817-5

Počet stran výsledku

34

Strana od-do

289-322

Počet stran knihy

492

Název nakladatele

Brill

Místo vydání

Leiden

Kód UT WoS kapitoly

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