Apollonius [Apollonios] of Perga (200-100 BC)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3432. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Greek geometer from Perga, now in Turkey, who proposed that the planets revolved around the Sun, and the Sun revolves around the Earth. Apollonius left no astronomical works but is believed to be the inventor of the geometric system of epicycles and eccentric circles, by which perfect circular motions were combined into the actual elliptical orbits of the planets. His work was developed by HIPPAR...

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