When the Earth Was Flat
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"Highly specialized and learned exposition much is made of the textual, conceptual, and . relevant literature. The author is also to be congratulated on his clarity and thoroughness." (David W. Hughes, The Observatory, Vol. 139 (1270), June, 2019)
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Introduction. - Preliminaries on Sources and Methodology.- Part One Ancient Greece.- Peculiarities of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology.- Anaximander's Images.- Anaximander's Phenomenological Cosmology.- Anaximander's Numbers.- Anaximenes' Cosmology.- Xenophanes' Cosmology.- Anaxagoras on The Milky Way and Lunar Eclipses.- Anaxagoras on The Light and Phases of the Moon.- Anaxagoras and the Measurement of the Sun and Moon.- Aristotle's Arguments for the Sphericity of the Earth.- Part Two Ancient China.- An Ancient Chinese Cosmology: Main Features.- An Ancient Chinese Flat Earth Cosmology. Details and Calculations.- Ancient Chinese Versus Greek Flat Earth Cosmology.- Two Appendices: Cosmas Indicopleustes and Samuel Birley Rowbotham.- Quotations from Ancient Greek and Roman Authors.- Quotations from the Zhou bi and Ancient Chinese Authors.- Bibliography.