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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

Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940 · 1913 · Oxford, Clarendon press · 9 pictures

A scholarly history of Greek astronomy by the mathematician and classicist Thomas Little Heath, published by the Clarendon Press at Oxford in 1913 for classicists and historians of science, with a translation of Aristarchus's treatise on solar and lunar distances. Line diagrams show circles, tangents, cones of shadow and epicycles, lettered in Roman and Greek characters, useful as spare geometric ornament.

Aristarchus, of Samos · Astronomers -- Greece -- Biography · Astronomy, Greek -- History

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