288 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
288 Pages
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Routledge
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In Ancient Cosmologies (1975) nine eminent scholars seek to answer the question, what was the shape of the universe imagined by those ancient peoples to whom all modern knowledge of geography and astronomy was inaccessible? How did the ancient Egyptians, Babylonians, Jews, Indians, Chinese, Arabs, Greeks and Norsemen conceive the form of the cosmos which accommodated not only the known face of... Read more
1. The Cosmology of Ancient Egypt J.M. Plumley 2. The Cosmology of Sumer and Babylon W.G. Lambert 3. Jewish Cosmology Rabbi Louis Jacobs 4. The Cosmology of Early China Joseph Needham 5. Ancient Indian Cosmology R.F. Gombrich 6. Islamic Cosmology Edith Jachimowicz 7. Scandinavian Cosmology H.R. Ellis Davidson 8. Greek Cosmologies G.E.R. Lloyd 9. The European Heritage Philip Grierson
Biography
Carmen Blacker and Michael Loewe
