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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... produced from water by rarefaction , and air again when heated becomes fire . We may assume therefore that , in Thales ' view , there was in the beginning only the primordial mass of water and from this other things were gradually ...
... producing the appearance of the heavenly body . Sun , moon , and stars are therefore like gas - jets , as it were . There is some doubt as to the nature of the eternal motion postulated along with the Infinite or Unlimited . The ...
... produced ; the stars are composed of fire that has risen aloft . The sun , moon , and stars are all made of fire and ride on the air because of their breadth ; the sun is flat like a leaf . We are told that Anaximenes also held that the ...
... produces water , and water vaporizes into air and fire ; this is the upward course . " All things are in flux " ; you cannot step twice into the same stream . There are two kinds of exhalations , said Heraclitus , arising from the earth ...
... produced by the variations in the proportion between the two exhalations . In the heavens are certain basins or bowls turned with their concave sides towards us , which collect the bright exhalations ; these are the stars . The sun and ...
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