- 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 Six1
Chapter Six1
- Chapter:
- (p.74) Chapter Six1
- Source:
- Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy
- Author(s):
Alan C. Bowen
Robert B. Todd
- Publisher:
- University of California Press
This chapter shows that the Earth is at the center of the cosmos. It establishes that the Earth occupies the exact center of the cosmos, by which it is enclosed, by again starting out from the procedure based on the fifth undemonstrated [argument constructed] through multiple [disjuncts]. If the Earth were higher than the center, then the half of the heavens above the Earth would not be visible, nor would the six zodiacal signs, nor half of the equinoctial circle, but less than all these [would be visible]. It has been illustrated that the Earth is not in any of the four regions. Therefore, it is necessary that it occupies the exact center of the cosmos.
Keywords: cosmos, Earth, heavens, zodiacal signs, equinoctial circle
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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