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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... says , the sun turns towards the country of the dark - com- plexioned people , and rises later for the Greeks . He does not mention the equinoxes , but only remarks in one place that in late summer the days become shorter and the nights ...
... says the author of the Platonic Epinomis , “ take it for granted that , whatever the Greeks take from the barbarians , they bring it to a finer perfection " ; and Adrastus , a Peripatetic of the second century A.D. , is quoted by Theon ...
... says Ptolemy , " we possess the ancient observations continued practically to the present day . ” A collection of ... say ) , are worthy to be ranked with Hipparchus and Ptolemy . Herodotus tells us that the Egyptians had a year of 365 ...
... says that the Egyptians called Venus and Mercury companions of the sun . Diodorus Siculus tells us that the priests of Thebes predicted eclipses quite as well as the Chaldaeans ; it is possible that , like the Greeks , the Egyptians ...
... says that the wheels of the sun and moon lie obliquely . This shows that Anaximander was aware of the obliquity of the ecliptic ; and the wheels of the sun and moon must be supposed to rotate about an axis perpendicular to the plane of ...
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