| Autore |
Hannam James
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| Edizione | [1st ed.] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa |
London : , : Reaktion Books, Limited, , 2023
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| Descrizione fisica |
1 online resource (377 pages)
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| Soggetto topico |
Earth (Planet)
Science - History
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| ISBN |
9781789148084
1789148081
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| Formato |
Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione |
eng
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| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Introduction: ‘The Blue Marble’ -- 1. Babylon: ‘The four quarters of the Earth’ -- 2. Egypt: ‘The black loam and the red sand’ -- 3. Persia: ‘Order and deceit’ -- 4. Archaic Greece: ‘The Shield of Achilles’ -- 5. The Origins of Greek Thought: ‘Equally distant from all extremes’ -- 6. The Presocratics and Socrates: ‘Floating on air’ -- 7. Plato: ‘Flat or round, whichever is better’ -- 8. Aristotle: ‘Necessarily spherical’ -- 9. Greek Debate on the Shape of the World: ‘Either round or triangular or some other shape’ -- 10. Romans on the Globe: ‘The circle of the world’ -- 11. India: ‘The mountain at the North Pole’ -- 12. The Sassanian Persians: ‘Good thoughts, good words, good deeds’ -- 13. Early Judaism: ‘From the ends of the Earth’ -- 14. Christianity: ‘All things established by divine command’ -- 15 Islam: ‘The Earth laid out like a carpet’ -- 16 Later Judaism: ‘The wise men of the nations have defeated the wise men of Israel’ -- 17. Europe in the Early Middle Ages: ‘Equally round in all directions’ -- 18. High Medieval Views of the World: ‘The Earth has the shape of a globe’ -- 19. Columbus and Copernicus: ‘New worlds will be found’ -- 20. China: ‘The heavens are round and the Earth is square’ -- 21. China and the West: ‘Like the yolk in a hen’s egg’ -- 22. The Globe Goes Global: ‘At the round Earth’s imagined corners’ -- 23. Today: ‘There’s nothing particularly exciting about a round world’ -- Afterword -- References
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