D R Dicks

Biographic Data

ID1025445
NAMED R Dicks
GIVEN NAMESD R
FAMILY NAMEDicks
SIGNATUREDICKS D R
AFFILIATIONSConcordia University
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS9
TOTAL CITATIONS17
AUTHOR COUNT9
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1955
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR1996
H-INDEX2

  • Decision-Making and Japan

    Dennis Dicks, D R Dicks et al.ARTICLEPacific Affairs1996

  • Early Greek Astronomy to Aristotle

    Pierre A Mackay, D R DicksARTICLEThe Classical World1971

  • Solstices, Equinoxes, and the Presocratics

    Open AccessD R DicksARTICLEThe Journal of Hellenic Studies1966

    The literature is now full of references to the scientific achievements (so-called) of the Presocratics, and the earlier the figure (and consequently the less information of reliable authenticity we have of him) the more enthusiastically do scholars enlarge his scientific knowledge—a proceeding which, of course, has plenty of precedent among the doxographers and commentators of antiquity. The classic example is Thales, whom I have discussed in an…

  • The Concepts of Greek Astronomy

    Open AccessD R DicksARTICLEBulletin of the Institute of…1964

    Journal Article THE CONCEPTS OF GREEK ASTRONOMY Get access D. R. Dicks D. R. Dicks Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, Volume 11, Issue 1, December 1964, Pages 43–53, https://doi.org/10.1111/j.2041-5370.1964.tb00004.x Published: 12 March 2010

  • The Geographical Fragments of Hipparchus. With an Introduction and Commentary

    William H Stahl, Hipparchus Hipparchus et al.ARTICLEThe Classical World1960

  • The Geographical Fragments of Hipparchus

    John Tierney, J J Tierney et al.ARTICLEGeographical Journal1960Cited by: 13

  • Thales

    Open AccessD R DicksARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1959Cited by: 3References: 5

    The Greeks attributed to Thales a great many discoveries and achievements. Few, if any, of these can be said to rest on thoroughly reliable testimony, most of them being the ascriptions of commentators and compilers who lived anything from 700 to 1,000 years after his death—a period of time equivalent to that between William the Conqueror and the present day. Inevitably there ilso accumulated round the name of Thales, as round that of Pythagoras …

  • Strabo and the Kʌimata

    Open AccessD R DicksARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1956

    In a recent paper I discussed the origin of the concept of the climata in Greek geography, and adduced reasons for attributing the formulation and elaboration of the concept to Hipparchus ( fl. 150 B.C.). The above passage in Strabo was naturally mentioned in the course of the argument, and I drew attention in a footnote to the unsatisfactory nature of the account given by him of the climata . I now propose to examine the passage in more detail

  • The ΚΛΙΜΑΤΑ In Greek Geography

    Open AccessD R DicksARTICLEThe Classical Quarterly1955Cited by: 1References: 2

    The climata played an important role in Greek geography. As used in the mathematical geography of Hipparchus and Ptolemy the word denotes a narrow belt or strip of land, 400 stades wide, on each side of a parallel of latitude; inhabitants of the same clitma were assumed to be situated in the same geographical latitude, since, for practical purposes, the celestial phenomena, lengths of the longest and shortest days, and general climatic conditions…