- Title Pages
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The Joan Palevsky
Imprint in Classical Literature
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Book One of Cleomedes’ The Heavens
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Chapter One
1 - Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
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Chapter Four
1 - Chapter Five
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Chapter Six
1 - Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Book Two of Cleomedes’ The Heavens
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
-
Chapter Seven
1 - Figures
- Appendix: Posidonius on Physics and Astronomy
- Glossary of Selected Terms
- Bibliography
- Passages from Cleomedes in Collections of Texts
- General Index
- Index Locorum
Chapter One
Chapter One
- Chapter:
- (p.99) Chapter One
- Source:
- Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy
- Author(s):
Alan C. Bowen
Robert B. Todd
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter states that the Sun is not the size it appears to be, as the Epicureans believed, but has a size calculable as far larger than that. The Sun appears larger as it rises and sets, and smaller at its culmination, because it is seen at the horizon through air that is denser and damper, while it is seen culminating through less adulterated air. The Sun's being one foot wide, of which there is a consequence, is also a falsehood. The Sun is the cause of virtually all the variety found among things on the Earth, since the Earth shows considerable contrast at some latitudes. Epicurus has nothing to do with astronomy, not to mention with philosophy.
Keywords: Sun, Epicurus, size, culmination, astronomy, philosophy, Earth
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- Title Pages
-
The Joan Palevsky
Imprint in Classical Literature
- [UNTITLED]
- Dedication
- Preface
- Abbreviations
- Introduction
- Book One of Cleomedes’ The Heavens
-
Chapter One
1 - Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
-
Chapter Four
1 - Chapter Five
-
Chapter Six
1 - Chapter Seven
- Chapter Eight
- Book Two of Cleomedes’ The Heavens
- Chapter One
- Chapter Two
- Chapter Three
- Chapter Four
- Chapter Five
- Chapter Six
-
Chapter Seven
1 - Figures
- Appendix: Posidonius on Physics and Astronomy
- Glossary of Selected Terms
- Bibliography
- Passages from Cleomedes in Collections of Texts
- General Index
- Index Locorum