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, Aristarchus, of Samos. On the sizes and distances of the sun and moon. English & Greek. 1913 · Oxford : Clarendon press · leaf 215
tude, a view for which Eudoxus has been attacked. x Following up the hint here given, Schiaparelli set himself toinvestigate the actual path of a planet subject to the rotations ofthe third and fourth spheres only, leaving out of account for themoment the motions of the first two spheres producing… … Fig. 6. opposite poles on this sphere, and a second sphere concentric withthe first rotates uniformly about PPf in the same time as the formersphere takes to turn about AB, but in the opposite direction. Μ is apoint on the second sphere equidistant from the poles Py P (in otherwords, a point on the…
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