Thales the Measurer. (2022)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Livio Rossetti.
• Authors: Rossetti, Livio
• Contents: 1. Who were these ancient masters?, 2. A context for Thales, 3. Elements of a biography, 4. How to measure the height of a pyramid, 5. Thales dates the tropai, 6. From the dating of the tropai to the dating of the isēmeriai, 7. What explains a solar eclipse?, 8. A measurement of ½°, 9. Surface water, archē, earth and, it seems, some fragments of Thales, 10. The periodic flooding of the Nile and the ‘Atlantic corollary’, 11. Thales and the stones of Magnesia, 12. The sky according to Thales, 13. To measure the distance of a ship from land, 14. Thales and the theorems of plane geometry, 15. Thales ‘el injenioso hidalgo’, 16. Thales the sophos, 17. The ‘new’ fragments of Thales, 18. Thales the measurer, 19. The research bug.
• Edition: 1st
• Publisher Details: London : Routledge
• Publication Date: 2022
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 199.495; Philosophers -- Greece; Mathematicians -- Greece; Astronomers -- Greece; Mathematics, Ancient -- Greece; Astronomy, Greek; Measurement -- History
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781000601862; 9781000601800; 9781003138723
• Related ISBNs: 9780367687090
• Notes: Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.; Note: Description based on CIP data; resource not viewed.
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