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
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.








