Heaven as the Outermost Periphery of the Earth in Archaic Ionian Cosmologies

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DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.25990/hyperboreus.7hbf-qv74" target="_blank" >10.25990/hyperboreus.7hbf-qv74</a>

Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Heaven as the Outermost Periphery of the Earth in Archaic Ionian Cosmologies

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The conception of heaven in archaic Ionian cosmologies, which belong to the earliest Presocratic conceptions of the world, is due to meagre textual evidence hard to reconstruct. Current scholars, meanwhile, tend to agree that in the previous epic tradition, heaven was believed to form a firm hemisphere located above a flat earth. Although such interpretations are based on indirect evidence, one can suppose that during the Archaic Era, heaven was considered to be a concrete constituent of the universe with a particular composition. In the case of archaic Ionian cosmologies, one can assume – based on their meteorological nature and the assumption of movement of heavenly bodies only above the earth – that the space of the universe stretched only between a flat earth and the heaven. The entire universe was thus viewed as closed, with the heaven forming its upper limit. Still, the heaven need not have been imagined as hemispherical: it could have been thought flat or merely curved. To wit, one can argue that the hemispherical shape of heaven, which often features in current interpretations, anachronistically draws on later conceptions belonging to the Italian school of philosophy, where the universe and therefore also the heaven was believed to form a sphere.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Heaven as the Outermost Periphery of the Earth in Archaic Ionian Cosmologies

Popis výsledku anglicky

The conception of heaven in archaic Ionian cosmologies, which belong to the earliest Presocratic conceptions of the world, is due to meagre textual evidence hard to reconstruct. Current scholars, meanwhile, tend to agree that in the previous epic tradition, heaven was believed to form a firm hemisphere located above a flat earth. Although such interpretations are based on indirect evidence, one can suppose that during the Archaic Era, heaven was considered to be a concrete constituent of the universe with a particular composition. In the case of archaic Ionian cosmologies, one can assume – based on their meteorological nature and the assumption of movement of heavenly bodies only above the earth – that the space of the universe stretched only between a flat earth and the heaven. The entire universe was thus viewed as closed, with the heaven forming its upper limit. Still, the heaven need not have been imagined as hemispherical: it could have been thought flat or merely curved. To wit, one can argue that the hemispherical shape of heaven, which often features in current interpretations, anachronistically draws on later conceptions belonging to the Italian school of philosophy, where the universe and therefore also the heaven was believed to form a sphere.

Druh

J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60301 - Philosophy, History and Philosophy of science and technology

Projekt

<a href="/cs/project/GA19-05575S" target="_blank" >GA19-05575S: Proměny pojetí prostoru v předsokratovských kosmologiích</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 periodika

Hyperboreus

ISSN

0949-2615

e-ISSN

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Svazek periodika

27

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

2

Stát vydavatele periodika

RU - Ruská federace

Počet stran výsledku

28

Strana od-do

185-212

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85139948584