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 414
ch thecircle MPQ, because PM is a diameter of thecircle which divides the dark andthe bright portions in the moon. And, since OL is equal to MP—for each of them is a diameter ofthe circle which divides the darkand the bright portions in themoon— therefore the circumference OMLis equal to the… … 1 Literally in the same plane with them* (avrols), which no doubt means theaxis and the sections of the sun and moon made by the plane originally assumed,which also contains the circle in which the diameter of the dividing circle inthe moon moves while the moon is passing through the earths…
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