HOW TO MEASURE THE HEIGHT OF A MOUNTAIN? A NOTE ON THE HISTORY OF GEODESY IN ANTIQUITY
Evgeniy Vasilyevich Afonasin1,2
1Novosibirsk National Research State University, 2, Pirogov st. Novosibirsk, 630090, Russia
2Institute of Philosophy and Law, SB RAS, 8, Nikolaev st. Novosibirsk, 630090
Keywords: школа Аристотеля, география, измерение величин в античности, the school of Aristotle, geography, measuring altitudes in antiquity
Abstract
The article considers how Spinoza developed his conception of the essence of substance. We show the The article deals with the earliest available evidences of an attempt to make an accurate measurement of heights of mountains which was undertaken by Dicaearchus of Messana, Aristotle’s follower. We discuss not only practical aspects of the measuring procedure, but also a global theoretical task which Dicaearchus set to himself, i.e. his attempt to use these measurements in order to prove the falsity of some theories of the flat Earth.
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