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050		4	_aQB21 _b.A7 2013
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100	1		_aHeath, Thomas Little, _cSir, _d1861-1940, _eauthor.
245	1	0	_aAristarchus of Samos, the ancient Copernicus : _ba history of Greek astronomy to Aristarchus, together with Aristarchus's Treatise on the sizes and distances of the sun and moon / _cT.L. Heath.
264		1	_aCambridge : _bCambridge University Press, _c2013.
300			_a1 online resource (vi, 425 pages) : _bdigital, PDF file(s).
336			_atext _btxt _2rdacontent
337			_acomputer _bc _2rdamedia
338			_aonline resource _bcr _2rdacarrier
490	1		_aCambridge library collection. Mathematics
500			_aOriginally published in Oxford at the Clarendon Press in 1913.
500			_aTitle from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
505	0		_apt. I. Greek astronomy to Aristarchus of Samos. Sources of the history -- Homer and Hesiod -- Thales -- Anaximander -- Anaximenes -- Pythagoras -- Xenophanes -- Heraclitus -- Parmenides -- Anaxagoras -- Empedocles -- The Pythagoreans -- The atomists, Leucippus and Democritus -- Oenopides -- Plato -- The theory of concentric spheres--Eudoxus, Callippus, and Aristotle -- Aristotle (continued) -- Heraclides of Pontus -- Greek months, years, and cycles -- pt. II. Aristarchus on the sizes and distances of the sun and moon. Aristarchus of Samos -- The treatise on sizes and distances--history of the text and editions -- Content of the treatise -- Later improvements on Aristarchus's calculations.
520			_aThe 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.
650		0	_aAstronomy, Greek.
600	0	0	_aAristarchus, _cof Samos.
650		0	_aAstronomers _zGreece _vBiography.
776	0	8	_iPrint version: _z9781108062336
830		0	_aCambridge library collection.
856	4	0	_uhttps://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139854719
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