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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 (1913) Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940 · Oxford, Clarendon press · leaf 277
rom the earth in the direction £D. Now | Fig. 13 (Β)], on the hypothesis of the epicycle, let © be the centre of the earth. About Θ as centre describe the circle ΣΙ Σ΄ equal to the eccentric circle of the other figure, and draw the radius 03 parallel (and equal) to SD in the other figure. Take 3 as… … KA equal to the anomaly (i.e. the angle CSD in the other figure) but reckoned in the opposite sense (i.e. in the dzrect order of the signs). Suppose. then that the planet is at 4 and seen from the earth in the direction ΘΖ. In the triangles ESD, ΘΣΖ, DS is equal and parallel to 26, and the angles… Aristarchus, of Samos · Astronomers -- Greece -- Biography · Astronomy, Greek -- History
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