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THIS essay is the first of a series entitled “Weltanschauungs-Fragen.” It deals with the ideas of the Greeks about the construction of the world, but, notwithstanding the title, the standpoint of the author is that of an historian of geography, and not that of an historian of astronomy. He is evidently quite at home when sketching the gradual rise of geographical knowledge and illustrating it by maps. But when he comes to the astronomical part of his subject he has apparently only Zeller's “Philosophie der Griechen” and Schiaparelli's memoir on the precursors of Copernicus to build on, while Schiaparelli's later paper on the very subject indicated by the title of the present essay, as well as the writings of Tannery, Hultsch, and others, are unknown to him.
Entwickelung und Untergang des Kopernikanischen Weltsystems bei den Alten.
By O. T. Schulz. Pp. 143. (Stuttgart, Verlag: Neue Weltanschauung, 1909.)
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D., J. Entwickelung und Untergang des Kopernikanischen Weltsystems bei den Alten . Nature 81, 365 (1909). https://doi.org/10.1038/081365b0
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