The Copernicus of Antiquity (Aristarchus of Samos)
by Sir Thomas Little Heath
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About this eBook
- Author
- Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940
- Credits
- Produced by Turgut Dincer, Charlie Howard, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- QB: Science: Astronomy
- Subject
- Aristarchus, of Samos
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 58498
- Release Date
- December 19, 2018
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.THE COPERNICUS OF ANTIQUITY (ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS)
- 2.CONTENTS
- 3.PART I. GREEK ASTRONOMY TO ARISTARCHUS. — THALES. — ANAXIMANDER. — ANAXIMENES. — PYTHAGORAS. — PARMENIDES. — ANAXAGORAS. — EMPEDOCLES. — THE PYTHAGOREANS. — ŒNOPIDES OF CHIOS. — PLATO. — EUDOXUS, CALLIPPUS, ARISTOTLE. — HERACLIDES OF PONTUS.
- 4.PART II. ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS. — THE HELIOCENTRIC HYPOTHESIS. — ON THE APPARENT DIAMETER OF THE SUN. — ON THE SIZES AND DISTANCES OF THE SUN AND MOON. — ARISTARCHUS ON THE YEAR AND “GREAT YEAR”. — LATER IMPROVEMENTS ON ARISTARCHUS’S FIGURES.
- 5.BIBLIOGRAPHY.
- 6.CHRONOLOGY.
- 7.Transcriber’s Notes
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