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Cosmology in Antiquity

Author : Rosemary Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134524188
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology in Antiquity written by Rosemary Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of Stephen Hawking's work has put cosmology back in the public eye. The question of how the universe began, and why it hangs together, still puzzles scientists. Their puzzlement began two and a half thousand years ago when Greek philosophers first 'looked up at the sky and formed a theory of everything.' Though their solutions are little credited today, the questions remain fresh. The early Greek thinkers struggled to come to terms with and explain the totality of their surroundings; to identitify an original substance from which the universe was compounded; and to reconcile the presence of balance and proportion with the apparent disorder of the universe. Rosemary Wright examines the cosmological theories of the `natural philosophers' from Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes to Plato, the Stoics and the NeoPlatonists. The importance of Babylonian and Egyptian forerunners is emphasised. Cosmology in Antiquity is a comprehensive introduction to the cosmological thought of antiquity, the first such survey since Neugebauer's work of 1962.

Cosmology in Antiquity

Author : Rosemary Wright
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1134524110
Total Pages : 213 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (345 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology in Antiquity written by Rosemary Wright and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2013-10-16 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The popularity of Stephen Hawking's work has put cosmology back in the public eye. The question of how the universe began, and why it hangs together, still puzzles scientists. Their puzzlement began two and a half thousand years ago when Greek philosophers first 'looked up at the sky and formed a theory of everything.' Though their solutions are little credited today, the questions remain fresh. The early Greek thinkers struggled to come to terms with and explain the totality of their surroundings; to identitify an original substance from which the universe was compounded; and to reconcile the presence of balance and proportion with the apparent disorder of the universe. Rosemary Wright examines the cosmological theories of the `natural philosophers' from Thales, Anaximander and Anaximenes to Plato, the Stoics and the NeoPlatonists. The importance of Babylonian and Egyptian forerunners is emphasised. Cosmology in Antiquity is a comprehensive introduction to the cosmological thought of antiquity, the first such survey since Neugebauer's work of 1962.

Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy

Author : Ricardo Salles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108836577
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy written by Ricardo Salles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.

Cosmology in Antiquity

Author : M. R. Wright
Publisher : Burns & Oates
ISBN 13 : 9780415121835
Total Pages : 201 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology in Antiquity written by M. R. Wright and published by Burns & Oates. This book was released on 1995 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings together recent evidence on the topic

Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity

Author : James Evans
Publisher : Princeton University Press
ISBN 13 : 0691174407
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (911 download)

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Download or read book Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity written by James Evans and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2016-11-11 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Published on the occasion of the exhibition held at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World, New York University, New York, October 19, 2016-April 23, 2017.

Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology

Author : Dirk L. Couprie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1441981160
Total Pages : 285 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (419 download)

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Book Synopsis Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology by : Dirk L. Couprie

Download or read book Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology written by Dirk L. Couprie and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2011-03-23 with total page 285 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Miletus, about 550 B.C., together with our world-picture cosmology was born. This book tells the story. In Part One the reader is introduced in the archaic world-picture of a flat earth with the cupola of the celestial vault onto which the celestial bodies are attached. One of the subjects treated in that context is the riddle of the tilted celestial axis. This part also contains an extensive chapter on archaic astronomical instruments. Part Two shows how Anaximander (610-547 B.C.) blew up this archaic world-picture and replaced it by a new one that is essentially still ours. He taught that the celestial bodies orbit at different distances and that the earth floats unsupported in space. This makes him the founding father of cosmology. Part Three discusses topics that completed the new picture described by Anaximander. Special attention is paid to the confrontation between Anaxagoras and Aristotle on the question whether the earth is flat or spherical, and on the battle between Aristotle and Heraclides Ponticus on the question whether the universe is finite or infinite.

Cosmology

Author : Norriss S. Hetherington
Publisher : CRC Press
ISBN 13 : 1000938468
Total Pages : 652 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology written by Norriss S. Hetherington and published by CRC Press. This book was released on 2023-05-31 with total page 652 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book is a collection of contributions examining cosmology from multiple perspectives. It presents articles on traditional Native American and Chinese cosmologies and traces the historical roots of western cosmology from Mesopotamia and pre-Socratic Greece to medieval cosmology.

Cosmos in the Ancient World

Author : Phillip Sidney Horky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108423647
Total Pages : 371 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book Cosmos in the Ancient World written by Phillip Sidney Horky and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2019-07-04 with total page 371 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.

Plato's Timaeus and the foundations of cosmology in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance

Author : Thomas Leinkauf
Publisher : Leuven University Press
ISBN 13 : 9789058675064
Total Pages : 524 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (75 download)

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Download or read book Plato's Timaeus and the foundations of cosmology in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance written by Thomas Leinkauf and published by Leuven University Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 524 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume is a study of the influence of Timaeus on the development of Western cosmology in three axial periods of European culture: Late Antiquity, Middle Ages and Renaissance.

The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy

Author : James Evans
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 019987445X
Total Pages : 495 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (998 download)

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Download or read book The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy written by James Evans and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1998-10-01 with total page 495 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The History and Practice of Ancient Astronomy combines new scholarship with hands-on science to bring readers into direct contact with the work of ancient astronomers. While tracing ideas from ancient Babylon to sixteenth-century Europe, the book places its greatest emphasis on the Greek period, when astronomers developed the geometric and philosophical ideas that have determined the subsequent character of Western astronomy. The author approaches this history through the concrete details of ancient astronomical practice. Carefully organized and generously illustrated, the book can teach readers how to do real astronomy using the methods of ancient astronomers. For example, readers will learn to predict the next retrograde motion of Jupiter using either the arithmetical methods of the Babylonians or the geometric methods of Ptolemy. They will learn how to use an astrolabe and how to design sundials using Greek and Roman techniques. The book also contains supplementary exercises and patterns for making some working astronomical instruments, including an astrolabe and an equatorium. More than a presentation of astronomical methods, the book provides a critical look at the evidence used to reconstruct ancient astronomy. It includes extensive excerpts from ancient texts, meticulous documentation, and lively discussions of the role of astronomy in the various cultures. Accessible to a wide audience, this book will appeal to anyone interested in how our understanding of our place in the universe has changed and developed, from ancient times through the Renaissance.

Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period

Author : Frederik A. Bakker
Publisher : Springer
ISBN 13 : 3030027651
Total Pages : 291 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (3 download)

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Book Synopsis Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period by : Frederik A. Bakker

Download or read book Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period written by Frederik A. Bakker and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-02-05 with total page 291 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume provides a much needed, historically accurate narrative of the development of theories of space up to the beginning of the eighteenth century. It studies conceptions of space that were implicitly or explicitly entailed by ancient, medieval and early modern representations of the cosmos. The authors reassess Alexandre Koyré’s groundbreaking work From the Closed World to the Infinite Universe (1957) and they trace the permanence of arguments to be found throughout the Middle Ages and beyond. By adopting a long timescale, this book sheds new light on the continuity between various cosmological representations and their impact on the ontology and epistemology of space. Readers may explore the work of a variety of authors including Aristotle, Epicurus, Henry of Ghent, John Duns Scotus, John Wyclif, Peter Auriol, Nicholas Bonet, Francisco Suárez, Francesco Patrizi, Giordano Bruno, Libert Froidmont, Marin Mersenne, Pierre Gassendi, Gottfried Wilhelm Leibniz and Samuel Clarke. We see how reflections on space, imagination and the cosmos were the product of a plurality of philosophical traditions that found themselves confronted with, and enriched by, various scientific and theological challenges which induced multiple conceptual adaptations and innovations. This volume is a useful resource for historians of philosophy, those with an interest in the history of science, and particularly those seeking to understand the historical background of the philosophy of space.

Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy

Author : Ricardo Salles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1108872107
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (88 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy written by Ricardo Salles and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2021-06-10 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In antiquity living beings are inextricably linked to the cosmos as a whole. Ancient biology and cosmology depend upon one another and therefore a complete understanding of one requires a full account of the other. This volume addresses many philosophical issues that arise from this double relation. Does the cosmos have a soul of its own? Why? Is either of these two disciplines more basic than the other, or are they at the same explanatory level? What is the relationship between living things and the cosmos as a whole? If the cosmos is an animate intelligent being, what is the nature of its thoughts and actions? How do these relate to our own thoughts and actions? Do they pose a threat to our autonomy as subjects and agents? And what is the place of zoogony in cosmogony? A distinguished international team of contributors provides original essays discussing these questions.

Cosmology and the Polis

Author : Richard Seaford
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1139504878
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (395 download)

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Download or read book Cosmology and the Polis written by Richard Seaford and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-01-12 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book further develops Professor Seaford's innovative work on the study of ritual and money in the developing Greek polis. It employs the concept of the chronotope, which refers to the phenomenon whereby the spatial and temporal frameworks explicit or implicit in a text have the same structure, and uncovers various such chronotopes in Homer, the Homeric Hymn to Demeter, Presocratic philosophy and in particular the tragedies of Aeschylus. Mikhail Bakhtin's pioneering use of the chronotope was in literary analysis. This study by contrast derives the variety of chronotopes manifest in Greek texts from the variety of socially integrative practices in the developing polis - notably reciprocity, collective ritual and monetised exchange. In particular, the Oresteia of Aeschylus embodies the reassuring absorption of the new and threatening monetised chronotope into the traditional chronotope that arises from collective ritual with its aetiological myth. This argument includes the first ever demonstration of the profound affinities between Aeschylus and the (Presocratic) philosophy of his time.

Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition

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Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004504699
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (45 download)

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Download or read book Time and Cosmology in Plato and the Platonic Tradition written by and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2022-02-14 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book assembles an international team of scholars to move forward the study of Plato’s conception of time, to find fresh insights for interpreting his cosmology, and to reimagine the Platonic tradition.

The Earliest Cosmologies

Author : William Fairfield Warren
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 234 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Earliest Cosmologies written by William Fairfield Warren and published by . This book was released on 1909 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Physical World of Late Antiquity

Author : Shmuel Sambursky
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (964 download)

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Download or read book The Physical World of Late Antiquity written by Shmuel Sambursky and published by . This book was released on 1987 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Alphanumeric Cosmology From Greek into Arabic

Author : Juan Acevedo
Publisher : Mohr Siebeck
ISBN 13 : 316159245X
Total Pages : 351 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (615 download)

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Download or read book Alphanumeric Cosmology From Greek into Arabic written by Juan Acevedo and published by Mohr Siebeck. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 351 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Juan Acevedo embarks on a semantic journey to track the origin and adventures of the Greek term stoicheion, which for at least eighteen centuries, from Pythagoras to Fibonacci, simultaneously meant "element", "letter", and "numeral". Focusing on this triple meaning and on how it was translated and interpreted in Latin, Hebrew, and Arabic - especially in key texts of the Abrahamic faiths- a metaphysical study takes shape. With touches of alchemy and theology, it reveals how a shared fundamental alphanumeric cosmology underlay many basic paradigms of science and faith around the Mediterranean until the advent of the Indo-Arabic numerals broke the "marriage" of letter and numeral. Careful readings of Plato, Philolaos, Nicomachus and Philo, of Genesis and the Sefer Yetsira, of the Qur'an, the Ikhwan al-Safa', and Ibn 'Arabi are all woven together into a synthesis full of implications for many disciplines.