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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
by HEATH, Sir Thomas
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- Hardcover
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About This Item
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second edition, using sheets of the 1913 first edition. Tall octavo. Blue cloth gilt. Fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with slight toning at the spine and extremities, with a small creased tear. A classic and highly regarded text broken down into two major parts: "A History of Greek Astronomy to Aristarchus" and "Aristarchus's Treatise On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon." The book demonstrates that Aristarchus wrote the first written document which upheld the Copernican theory eighteen-hundred years before that treatise was published. In the preface, Heath defends Aristarchus from his critics while lauding his mathematics and astronomy as superior work.
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- Bookseller
- Between the Covers- Rare Books, Inc. ABAA
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 552717
- Title
- 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
- Author
- HEATH, Sir Thomas
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Near Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Publisher
- Clarendon Press
- Place of Publication
- Oxford
- Date Published
- 1959
- Keywords
- Occult, Biography, Religion, Philosophy, Science
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Gloucester City, New Jersey
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