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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      05 November 2014
      20 March 2014
      ISBN:
      9781139856287
      9781108062800
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9781139856287
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      Dimensions:
      (216 x 140 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.33kg, 256 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy: General Interest, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics
      Series:
      Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy
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    Subjects:
    Physics and Astronomy, Astronomy: General Interest, History, Philosophy and Foundations of Physics
    Series:
    Cambridge Library Collection - Astronomy
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    From its beginnings in Babylonian and Egyptian theories, through its flowering into revolutionary ideas such as heliocentricity, astronomy proved a source of constant fascination for the philosophers of antiquity. In ancient Greece, the earliest written evidence of astronomical knowledge appeared in the poems of Homer and Hesiod. In the present work, first published in 1932, Sir Thomas Little Heath (1861–1940) collects some of the most notable essays and discussions of astronomical theory by Greek astronomers and mathematicians, presenting them in English translation for the modern reader. With chronological coverage, Heath's book features a thorough introduction, a doxography of what ancient authors said about the earliest theorists and longer excerpts exploring fundamental ideas. Among the pieces are extracts from Plato's Republic and Ptolemy's work on the impossibility of a moving Earth, alongside material from Aristotle, Euclid, Strabo, Plutarch and others.

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