Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of The Heavens (Volume 42) - Hardcover

Cleomedes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0520233255 ISBN 13: 9780520233256

Publisher: University of California Press, 2004

Synopsis

At some time around 200 A.D., the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as part of a complete introduction to Stoicism for his students. The result was The Heavens (Caelestia), the only work by a professional Stoic teacher to survive intact from the first two centuries A.D., and a rare example of the interaction between science and philosophy in late antiquity. This volume contains a clear and idiomatic English translation―the first ever―of The Heavens, along with an informative introduction, detailed notes, and technical diagrams. This important work will now be accessible to specialists in both ancient philosophy and science and to readers interested in the history of astronomy and cosmology but with no knowledge of ancient Greek.

About this title

About the Author:

Alan C. Bowen is Director of the Institute for Research in Classical Philosophy and Science, Princeton, and editor of several books including Science and Philosophy in Classical Greece (1991) and Astronomy and Astrology from the Babylonians to Kepler (2003). Robert B. Todd is Professor of Classics at the University of British Columbia; his publications include Themistius on Aristotle on the Soul (1996) and Cleomedis Caelestia (1990).

About this edition

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Publication date: 2004
• ISBN 10: 0520233255
• ISBN 13: 9780520233256
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 254