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Author
Publisher
Reaktion Books
Pub. Date
2023.
Language
English
Description
Introduction: 'The Blue Marble' - Babylon: 'The four quarters of the Earth' -- Egypt: 'The black loam and the red sand' -- Persia: 'Order and deceit' -- Archaic Greece: 'The Shield of Achilles' -- The origins of Greek thought: 'Equally distant from all extremes' -- The Presocratics and Socrates: 'Floating on air' -- Plato: 'Flat or round, whichever is better' -- Aristotle: 'Necessarily spherical' -- Greek debate on the shape of the world: 'Either...
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