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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 368

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