Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus
This Dover edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published in 1913 by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, under the title, 'Aristarchus of Samos, The Ancient Copernicus: A History of Greek Astronomy to Aristarchus, Together with...
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This Dover edition, first published in 1981, is an unabridged and unaltered republication of the work originally published in 1913 by the Clarendon Press, Oxford, under the title, '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; A New Greek Text with Translation and Notes.' The present edition is published by special arrangement with Oxford University Press.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486241883 (0486241882)
Publish date: August 28th 1981
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 424
Edition language: English
As other people here have pointed out, the title is misleading. Sir Thomas Heath, an eminent scholar of classical science, published it in 1913. He says his original goal was to provide an English translation of Aristarchus's Greek text describing his method for measuring the distance to the sun; bu...
Though the scholarship is old, this book remains a classic
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