- 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 One1
Chapter One1
- Chapter:
- (p.21) Chapter One1
- Source:
- Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy
- Author(s):
Alan C. Bowen
Robert B. Todd
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter illustrates that the cosmos is a finite and stable structure surrounded by an infinite void. It also demonstrates that the Earth and the heavens are homocentric spherical bodies with corresponding zones of latitude. A cosmos is a construct formed from the heavens, the Earth, and the natural substances within them. If the extracosmic void is limited, and at all events enclosed by something, yet not enclosed by body, it will be enclosed by something incorporeal. The cosmos itself, being a body, necessarily has both an upwards and downwards [direction], as well as the remaining directions. The theory of Nature states that circumhabitants, antipodes, and contrahabitants must exist, since none of these [groups] are described by direct reports.
Keywords: cosmos, infinite void, Earth, heavens, extracosmic void, Nature
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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