CONTENTS
Sir Thomas Little Heath
PART I
GREEK ASTRONOMY TO ARISTARCHUS
PAGE
Thales
6
Anaximander
10
Anaximenes
13
Pythagoras
14
Parmenides
16
Anaxagoras
18
Empedocles
21
The Pythagoreans
22
Œnopides of Chios
24
Plato
25
Eudoxus, Callippus, Aristotle
28
Heraclides of Pontus
33
PART II
ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS
The Heliocentric Hypothesis
39
On the Apparent Diameter of the Sun
42
On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon
43
On the Year and “Great Year”
53
Later Improvements on Aristarchus’s Figures
54
Bibliography
57
Chronology
59
Concentric orbits with Sun at center
Copernicus’s diagram of his system (anticipated by Aristarchus).
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