Intro; Foreword; Reference; Spherical Versus Flat; Acknowledgements; References; Contents; List of Abbreviations; List of Figures; List of Tables; Chapter 1: Introduction; Something About the Origin of the Book; An Overview of the Book; References; Chapter 2: Preliminaries on Sources and Methodology; Sources; Methodology; References; Part I: Ancient Greece; Chapter 3: Peculiarities of Presocratic Flat Earth Cosmology; The Shape of the Earth; Arguments Concerning the Shape of the Earth; Geographical Issues; The Tilt of the Celestial Axis; The Alleged Tilt of the Earth; Climatological Issues

Falling on a Flat EarthDistance of the Heavens; Temporal Issues; References; Chapter 4: Anaximanderś Images; Introduction; The Cosmic Tree; The Tilted Tree; The Reversal in the Relationship Between Air and Fire; Tamed Fire; Turning Wheels; Two Images for Escaping Fire; Tilted Wheels; References; Chapter 5: Anaximanderś Phenomenological Cosmology; Closing Fire Spots; Phases of the Moon; Lunar Eclipses; Solar Eclipses; References; Chapter 6: Anaximanderś Numbers; Introduction; An Ordered Universe; Anaximanderś Numbers of the Heavenly Bodies; Tannery and the Standard Interpretation

The Problem of the Sunś DistanceAttempts to Explain the Origin of Anaximanderś Cosmological Numbers; An Interpretation Dating from Before Tannery; The Sunś Angular Diameter; Skeptical Conclusions and a Possible Way Out; A New Interpretation: The Numbers As a Calculator for the Lunar Cycle; Conclusions; References; Chapter 7: Anaximenes ́Cosmology; The Cap Simile; Graham and the Top Hat; The Tilted Earth Interpretation of the Cap Simile; Bicknellś Interpretation of the Cap Simile; McKirahanś Interpretation of the Cap Simile; Fehling and the Flat Heaven; A Fresh Look at the Doxography

Anonymous Texts and Kirkś InterpretationTowards an Interpretation of Anaximenes ́Cosmology; Concluding Remarks; References; Chapter 8: Xenophanes ́Cosmology; A Cosmological Quotation from Xenophanes ́Poem; Xenophanes ́Text in the Interpretation of Aristotle, Achilles Tatius, Empedocles, Pseudo-Aristotle, and Simplicius; Xenophanes ́Text in the Interpretation of Aëtius, Strabo, and Cicero; Xenophanes ́Text in the Interpretation of Diogenes of Oinoanda, Hippolytus, and Pseudo-Plutarch; Xenophanes ́Text in the Interpretation of Some Recent Authors