Greek AstronomyCourier Corporation, 1.01.1991 г. - 192 страници Astronomy as a science began with the Ionian philosophers, with whom Greek philosophy and mathematics also began. While the Egyptians and Babylonians had accomplished much of astronomical worth, it remained for the unrivalled speculative genius of the Greeks, in particular, their mathematical genius, to lay the foundations of the true science of astronomy. In this classic study, a noted scholar discusses in lucid detail the specific advances made by the Greeks, many of whose ideas anticipated the discoveries of modern astronomy. |
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... further details of Thales ' astronomical knowledge are handed down . He gave the length of the year as 365 days ; this he probably learnt from Egypt . He is said to have discovered the inequality of the four astronomical seasons , that ...
... Further , Plato in the Cratylus speaks of " the fact which he ( Anaxagoras ) recently asserted , namely that the moon has its light from the sun . " It may be , as Burnet says , that this was only the first intro- 1 The expression ...
... further that he assumed a series of projections or hurlings - off of precisely the same kind as the theory of Kant and Laplace assumes for the formation of the solar system . We may assume that Anaxagoras ' hypo- thesis was not ...
... further elucidation of " rolling , " though those words are not in Plato's text ; the added words prove that Aristotle took Plato's expres- sion to imply motion of some kind . The latest inter- pretation of " rolling , etc. , " is that ...
... further says that this " is not a thing I learnt when I was young or have known a long time . " How the scheme is worked is not stated ; but one way would be to reject the apparent daily rotation of the fixed stars as an illusion , and ...
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