Aristarchus of Samos, the ancient Copernicus
(2014)
Nonfiction
eBook
Details
PUBLISHED
[United States] : Dover Publications : Made available through hoopla, 2014
DESCRIPTION
1 online resource
ISBN/ISSN
9780486150819 (electronic bk.) MWT11604691, 048615081X (electronic bk.) 11604691
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
This classic work traces Aristarchus of Samos's anticipation by two millennia of Copernicus's revolutionary theory of the orbital motion of the earth. Heath's history of astronomy ranges from Homer and Hesiod to Aristarchus and includes quotes from numerous thinkers, compilers, and scholasticists from Thales and Anaximander through Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle, and Heraclides. 34 figures
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