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9780486438863
Aristarchus Of Samos The Ancient Copernicus
by Heath, Thomas L.
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- ISBN-13: 9780486438863
- ISBN: 0486438864
- Publication Date: 2004
- Publisher: Dover Publications, Incorporated
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This classic work by Sir Thomas Heath, a leading historian of Greek science, traces Aristarchus of Samos's anticipation by two millennia of Copernicus's revolutionary theory of the orbital motion of the earth. Heath's history of astronomy ranges from Homer and Hesiod to Aristarchus and includes quotes from numerous thinkers, compilers, and scholasticists from Thales and Anaximander through Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclides. This edition includes a critical Greek text and translation of Aristarchus's work, On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon. 1913 ed. 34 figures. Index.Heath, Thomas L. is the author of 'Aristarchus Of Samos The Ancient Copernicus', published 2004 under ISBN 9780486438863 and ISBN 0486438864.
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