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| Paper: |
Tot Graeci Tot Sententiae: Astronomical Perspective
Multiplicity in Ancient Greece |
| Volume: |
441, The Inspiration of Astronomical Phenomena VI |
| Page: |
371 |
| Authors: |
Longo, O. |
| Abstract: |
Ancient Greece was made of a multiplicity of thinking heads, in an
atmosphere of (relative) freedom of opinions, in every field of
knowledge. then we should not wonder if many astronomical and
cosmological theories, survived until our 17th century, had
already been formulated by different philosophers and in different
regions, cities and periods of Greek history. Geocentric and
heliocentric theories, as well as an atomistic theory of an infinite
universe (with infinite worlds), could survive without crashing with
one another. In the same time, religious opinions regarding the
planets and Sun as a series of gods were present, however not on a
scientific ground. |
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