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Cleomedes’ Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of The Heavens

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At a while around 200 A.D., the Stoic philosopher and teacher Cleomedes delivered a set of lectures on elementary astronomy as a part of an entire introduction to Stoicism for his students. The result used to be The Heavens (Caelestia), the only work by a professional Stoic teacher to live on intact from the primary two centuries A.D., and a rare example of the interaction between science and philosophy in late antiquity. This volume accommodates a clear and idiomatic English translation―the primary ever―of The Heavens, along with an informative introduction, detailed notes, and technical diagrams. This vital work will now be accessible to specialists in both ancient philosophy and science and to readers interested within the history of astronomy and cosmology but with out a knowledge of ancient Greek.

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