Aristarchus's <em>On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon</em>: Greek and Arabic Texts

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May 2007

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Archive for History of Exact Sciences (ISSN 0003-9519), Vol. 61, No. 3, p. 213 - 254 (2007)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

History Of Astronomy, Sun, Moon, Sizes, Distances

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In the 1920s, T. L. Heath pointed out that historians of mathematics have "given too little attention to Aristarchus". This is still true today. The Greek text of Aristarchus's On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and the Moon has received little attention; the Arabic editions virtually none. Much of what this text has to tell us about ancient and medieval mathematics and the mathematical sciences has gone unnoticed. It should be taken as an important source for our understanding of the mathematical sciences of the early Hellenistic period.

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