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 MoonThe Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos was active in the third century BCE, more than a thousand years before Copernicus presented his model of a heliocentric solar system. It was Aristarchus, however, who first suggested - in a work that is now lost - that the planets revolve around the sun. Edited by Sir Thomas Little Heath (1861-1940), this 1913 publication contains the ancient astronomer's only surviving treatise, which does not propound the heliocentric hypothesis. The Greek text is based principally on the tenth-century manuscript Vaticanus Graecus 204. Heath also provides a facing-page English translation and explanatory notes. The treatise is prefaced by a substantial history of ancient Greek astronomy, ranging from Homer's first mention of constellations to work by Heraclides of Pontus in the fourth century BCE relating to the Earth's rotation. Heath's collection of translated ancient texts, Greek Astronomy (1932), is also reissued in this series. |
Contents
GREEK ASTRONOMY TO ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS CHAPTER PAGES 1 SOURCES OF THE HISTORY | 1 |
HOMER AND HESIOD 711 | 7 |
THALES 1223 | 12 |
ANAXIMANDER 2439 | 24 |
ANAXIMENES 4045 | 40 |
XENOPHANES 5258 | 52 |
HERACLITUS 5961 | 59 |
PARMENIDES 6277 | 62 |
PLATO 134189 | 134 |
THE THEORY or CONCENTRIC SPHERESEUDOXUS CALLIPPUS AND ARISTOTLE 190224 | 190 |
ARISTOTLE ronlznued 225248 | 225 |
HERACLIDES 0F PONTUS 249283 | 249 |
GREEK MONTHS YEARS AND CYCLES 284297 | 284 |
PART II | 299 |
THE TREATISE 0N SIZES AND DISTANCESHISTORY OF THE TEXT AND EDITIONS 3171327 | 317 |
CONTENT OF THE TREATISE 328336 | 328 |
ANAXAGORAS 7885 | 78 |
EMPEDOCLES 8693 | 86 |
THE PYTHAGOREANS 94120 | 94 |
THE ATOMISTS LEUCIPPUS AND DEMOCRITUS 121129 | 121 |
OENOPIDES I 30133 | 133 |
LATER IMPROVEMENTS 0N ARISTARCHUSS CALCULA TIONS 337350 | 337 |
GREEK TEXT TRANSLATION AND NOTES 351414 | 351 |
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