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 (1913)
view for which Eudoxus has been attacked,’ 1 Following up the hint here given, Schiaparelli set himself to investigate the actual path of a planet subject to the rotations of the third and fourth spheres only, leaving out of account for the moment the motions of the first two spheres producing… … opposite poles on this sphere, and a second sphere concentric with the first rotates uniformly about PP’ in the same time as the former sphere takes to turn about AZ, but in the opposite direction. JZ is a point on the second sphere equidistant from the poles P, }' (in other words, a point on the…
Aristarchus, of Samos · Astronomers -- Greece -- Biography · Astronomy, Greek -- History
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