Thales the measurer

1. Verfasser: Rossetti, Livio , [VerfasserIn]
Ort/Verlag/Jahr: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2022.
Umfang/Format: 1 volume : illustrations ; 26 cm.
Schriftenreihe: Issues in ancient philosophy
Schlagworte:
Thales, > approximately 634 B.C.-approximately 546 B.C.
Philosophers > Greece.
Mathematicians > Greece.
Astronomers > Greece.
Mathematics, Ancient > Greece.
Astronomy, Greek.
Measurement > History.
Parallelausgabe: Rossetti, Livio., Thales the measurer (Online version:) | ISSN: 9781003138723
Inhaltsangabe:
  • Who were these ancient masters?
  • A context for Thales
  • Elements of a biography
  • How to measure the height of a pyramid
  • Thales dates the tropai
  • From the dating of the tropai to the dating of the isēmeriai
  • What explains a solar eclipse?
  • A measurement of 1/2°
  • Surface water, archē, earth and, it seems, some fragments of Thales
  • The periodic flooding of the Nile and the 'Atlantic corollary'
  • Thales and the stones of Magnesia
  • The sky according to Thales
  • To measure the distance of a ship from land
  • Thales and the theorems of plane geometry
  • Thales 'el injenioso hidalgo'
  • Thales the sophos
  • The 'new' fragments of Thales
  • Thales the measurer
  • The research bug.

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