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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 390

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378 ON THE SIZES AND DISTANCES γωνίαν, ἡ ἄρα HE πρὸς τὴν EO μείζονα λόγον ἔχει ἤπερ τὰ te πρὸς τὰ β. καὶ ἐπεὶ ἴση ἐστὶν ἡ ΒΕ τῇ ΕΖ, καὶ ἔστιν ὀρθὴ ἡ πρὸς τῷ Ε, τὸ ἄρα ἀπὸ τῆς ΖΒ τοῦ ἀπὸ BE διπλάσιόν ἐστιν- ὡς δὲ τὸ ἀπὸ ΖΒ πρὸς τὸ ἀπὸ ΒΕ, οὕτως ἐστὶ τὸ ἀπὸ ΖΗ πρὸς τὸ 5 ἀπὸ HE: τὸ ἄρα ἀπὸ ZH τοῦ ἀπὸ… … HE μείῤονα λόγον ἔχει ἢ (ὃν τὰ) pO πρὸς Ke καὶ ἡ ΖΗ ἄρα πρὸς τὴν HE μείζονα λόγον ἔχει ἡ (ὃν) τὰ ¢ πρὸς τὰ ε: καὶ συνθέντι ἡ ΖΕ ἄρα πρὸς τὴν EH μείζονα λόγον ἔχει ἢ ὃν τὰ ιβ to πρὸς τὰ ε, τουτέστιν, ἢ ὃν (τὰν ἃς’ πρὸς τὰ LE. ἐδείχθη δὲ καὶ ἡ 2. β] δύο W 3. BE] τῆς BE W 7. (ὃν τὰ] om. Vat. κε] τὰ κε…

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