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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

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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 - Heath, Thomas Little
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The 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 ...

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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 2022, Legare Street Press

ISBN-13: 9781015750951

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 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 2022, Legare Street Press

ISBN-13: 9781015755505

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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 (Classic Reprint) 2018, Forgotten Books

ISBN-13: 9780266463177

Hardcover

 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 (Classic Reprint) 2018, Forgotten Books

ISBN-13: 9781334032554

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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 2013, Cambridge University Press, Cambridge

ISBN-13: 9781108062336

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