Cosmology In Antiquity

Author : Rosemary Wright
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 213 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2013-10-16
Category : History
ISBN : 9781134524112

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Cosmology in Antiquity by Rosemary Wright Pdf

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.

Author : M. R. Wright
Publisher : Burns & Oates
Page : 201 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0415121833

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Cosmology in Antiquity by M. R. Wright Pdf

Brings together recent evidence on the topic

Author : Ricardo Salles
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 325 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 2021-06-10
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108836579

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Cosmology and Biology in Ancient Philosophy by Ricardo Salles Pdf

Explores ancient biology and cosmology as two sciences that shed light on one another in their goals and methods.

Author : Dirk L. Couprie
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 285 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2011-03-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781441981165

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Heaven and Earth in Ancient Greek Cosmology by Dirk L. Couprie Pdf

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.

Author : Thomas Leinkauf,Carlos G. Steel
Publisher : Leuven University Press
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2005
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9058675068

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Plato's Timaeus and the foundations of cosmology in Late Antiquity, the Middle Ages and Renaissance by Thomas Leinkauf,Carlos G. Steel Pdf

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.

Author : James Evans
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 208 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2016-11-11
Category : History
ISBN : 9780691174402

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Time and Cosmos in Greco-Roman Antiquity by James Evans Pdf

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.

Author : Phillip Sidney Horky
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 371 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2019-07-04
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781108423649

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Cosmos in the Ancient World by Phillip Sidney Horky Pdf

Traces the concept of kosmos as order, arrangement, and ornament in ancient philosophy, literature, and aesthetics.

Author : Shmuel Sambursky
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 1987
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:964082296

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The Physical World of Late Antiquity by Shmuel Sambursky Pdf

Author : Frederik A. Bakker,Delphine Bellis,Carla Rita Palmerino
Publisher : Springer
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 42,9 Mb
Release : 2019-02-05
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783030027650

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Space, Imagination and the Cosmos from Antiquity to the Early Modern Period by Frederik A. Bakker,Delphine Bellis,Carla Rita Palmerino Pdf

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.

Author : Michael J. Crowe
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 229 pages
File Size : 51,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486315591

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Theories of the World from Antiquity to the Copernican Revolution by Michael J. Crowe Pdf

Revised edition re-creates the change from an earth- to a sun-centered conception of the solar system by focusing on an examination of the evidence available in 1615.

Author : Anna Marmodoro
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2014
Category : PHILOSOPHY
ISBN : 1316247996

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Causation and Creation in Late Antiquity by Anna Marmodoro Pdf

Author : Nicola F. Denzey
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 220 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2013-04-09
Category : History
ISBN : 9789004245761

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Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity by Nicola F. Denzey Pdf

In Cosmology and Fate in Gnosticism and Graeco-Roman Antiquity, Nicola Denzey Lewis dismisses Hans Jonas' mischaracterization of second-century Gnosticism as a philosophically-oriented religious movement built on the perception of the cosmos as negative or enslaving. A focused study on the concept of astrological fate in “Gnostic” writings including the Apocryphon of John, the recently-discovered Gospel of Judas, Trimorphic Protennoia, and the Pistis Sophia, this book reexamines their language of “enslavement to fate (Gk: heimarmene)” from its origins in Greek Stoicism, its deployment by the apostle Paul, to its later use by a variety of second-century intellectuals (both Christian and non-Christian). Denzey Lewis thus offers an informed and revisionist conceptual map of the ancient cosmos, its influence, and all those who claimed to be free of its potentially pernicious effects.

Author : Georges De Schrijver
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
Page : 253 pages
File Size : 49,8 Mb
Release : 2016-09-30
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781532610158

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Imagining the Creator God by Georges De Schrijver Pdf

Ever since it was demonstrated in the 1920s that the universe, with its trillions of galaxies, is caught up in a process of steady expansion, it became evident that it must have originated from an "initial singularity," a "Big Bang," which gave rise to the formation of subatomic parts, atoms, molecules, clouds of gas, and finally, stars and galaxies. Running this expansion back in time, scientists began to reckon with the miracle of an evolving universe of which we are the outcome: the iron in our blood has been formed in the stars. This book gives an overview of the cosmologies that were in vogue in antiquity­--the Jewish and Christian concepts of Creation, and the classical thinkers in Greek cosmology: Plato, Aristotle, and Ptolemy--and in modern times, Copernicus, Galileo, Kepler, and Newton. The book brings us right down to the present day with a careful and readable treatment of the scientific innovations inaugurated by Einstein and the specialists in quantum physics, and to recent developments in astrophysics. This path of exploration opens the avenue for imagining a Creator God who is so generous that he invites creation to share in his own creativity.

Author : Paul A. LaViolette
Publisher : Inner Traditions / Bear & Co
Page : 390 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2004-04-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 1591430348

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Genesis of the Cosmos by Paul A. LaViolette Pdf

Paul LaViolette reveals astonishing parallels between cutting edge scientific thought and early creation myths, and how these myths encode a theory of cosmology in which matter is continually growing from seeds of order that emerge spontaneously from chaos. Exposing the contradictions of the Big Bang theory, LaViolette leads us beyond the restrictive metaphors of modern science and into a new science for the 21st century.

Author : William Fairfield Warren
Publisher : Forgotten Books
Page : 42 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2018-05
Category : Foreign Language Study
ISBN : 0365831115

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The True Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography (Classic Reprint) by William Fairfield Warren Pdf

Excerpt from The True Key to Ancient Cosmology and Mythical Geography The suggestion that the true cosmology of Homer has for more than four hundred years eluded the research of scholars, is hardly less startling and paradoxical than was in its time the great thesis of Copernicus. Nevertheless, as the Key 'here presented clearly shows. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.