Category: History - Ancient

The Copernicus of Antiquity (Aristarchus of Samos)

Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940· 4 chapters· 17,815 words

The title-page of this book necessarily bears the name of one man; but the reader will find in its pages the story, or part of the story, of many other Pioneers of Progress. The crowning achievement of anticipating the hypothesis of Copernicus belongs to Aristarchus of Samos a...

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Chapters

1. PART I

2. PART II

3. PART I.

The title-page of this book necessarily bears the name of one man; but the reader will find in its pages the story, or part of the story, of many other Pioneers of Progress. The...

4. PART II.

We are told that Aristarchus of Samos was a pupil of Strato of Lampsacus, a natural philosopher of originality, who succeeded Theophrastus as head of the Peripatetic school in 2...