PIONEERS OF PROGRESS
MEN OF SCIENCE
Edited by S. CHAPMAN, M.A., D.Sc., F.R.S.
THE
COPERNICUS OF ANTIQUITY
(ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS)
BY
Sir THOMAS HEATH
K.C.B., K.C.V.O., F.R.S.; Sc.D., Camb.; Hon. D.Sc., Oxford
LONDON:
SOCIETY FOR PROMOTING
CHRISTIAN KNOWLEDGE
NEW YORK: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY
1920
CONTENTS
| 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 |
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