Title Statements
- Full title :Thales the measurer / Livio Rossetti
Edition Statements
- Publication Date:2022
Publication Statements
- Publisher(s):Routledge / Taylor & Francis
- Place of Publication:Abingdon
- Language:eng
- Publication Date:2022
The Physical Object
- Description:XII, 214 p. : : il. ; : 24 cm
Edition Identifiers
- ISBN:9780367687090, 0367687097, 9780367687106, 0367687100
- oclc:on1345517214
Table of Contents
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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