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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... latter effect . Anaximenes made one innovation of significance ; he held that there are also , in the region occupied by the stars , bodies of an earthy nature which are carried round with them . If , as seems likely , these bodies were ...
... latter was the meaning , we must put it down to prejudice on the part of Aristotle . EMPEDOCLES was a great democratic leader at Acragas ( Agrigentum ) , being apparently the only native citizen of a Dorian state who plays an important ...
... the solar system . We may assume that Anaxagoras ' hypo- thesis was not mathematically grounded as was that of Laplace . Under the latter hypothesis ( to use Sir James Jeans ' words ) " a hot nebulous mass of xxxiv GREEK ASTRONOMY.
... latter is called the circle of the Same , the former that of the Other . The other details remain much as described above , except those relating to the earth in the centre . One feature of the system described in the Timaeus , namely ...
... latter view , he says , was held by the Italian philosophers known as Pythagoreans , who said that " at the centre there is fire , and the earth is one of the stars , " etc. But he adds : " Many others might agree that we ought not to ...
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