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Cambridge Library Collection-Mathematics Ser.: Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus : A History of Greek Astronomy to Aristarchus, Together with Aristarchus's Treatise on the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon by Thomas Heath (2013, Trade Paperback)

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PublisherCambridge University Press

ISBN-101108062334

ISBN-139781108062336

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Number of Pages440 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameAristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus : A History of Greek Astronomy to Aristarchus, Together with Aristarchus's Treatise on the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon

Publication Year2013

SubjectHistory & Philosophy, Cultural Heritage, Astronomy, Science & Technology

TypeTextbook

Subject AreaMathematics, Science, Biography & Autobiography

AuthorThomas Heath

SeriesCambridge Library Collection-Mathematics Ser.

FormatTrade Paperback

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Table Of ContentPreface; Part I. Greek Astronomy to Aristarchus of Samos: 1. Sources of the history; 2. Homer and Hesiod; 3. Thales; 4. Anaximander; 5. Anaximenes; 6. Pythagoras; 7. Xenophanes; 8. Heraclitus; 9. Parmenides; 10. Anaxagoras; 11. Empedocles; 12. The Pythagoreans; 13. The atomists, Leucippus and Democritus; 14. Oenopides; 15. Plato; 16. The theory of concentric spheres; 17. Aristotle; 18. Heraclides of Pontus; 19. Greek months, years, and cycles; Part II. Aristarchus on the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon: 1. Aristarchus of Samos; 2. The treatise on sizes and distances; 3. Content of the treatise; 4. Later improvements on Aristarchus's calculations; Greek text, translation and notes; Index.

SynopsisThe Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos was active in the third century BCE, more than a thousand years before Copernicus presented his model of a heliocentric solar system. It was Aristarchus, however, who first suggested - in a work that is now lost - that the planets revolve around the sun. Edited by Sir Thomas Little Heath (1861-1940), this 1913 publication contains the ancient astronomer's only surviving treatise, which does not propound the heliocentric hypothesis. The Greek text is based principally on the tenth-century manuscript Vaticanus Graecus 204. Heath also provides a facing-page English translation and explanatory notes. The treatise is prefaced by a substantial history of ancient Greek astronomy, ranging from Homer's first mention of constellations to work by Heraclides of Pontus in the fourth century BCE relating to the Earth's rotation. Heath's collection of translated ancient texts, Greek Astronomy (1932), is also reissued in this series., Aristarchus of Samos was the first astronomer to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system. This 1913 Greek edition of his only surviving treatise, with facing-page English translation, was prepared by Sir Thomas Little Heath (1861-1940). It is prefaced by a substantial history of ancient Greek astronomy.