ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS Heath, Thomas

Heath's history of Greek astronomy from Homer and Hesiod to Aristarchus serves to increase the wonder at Aristachus' simple, radical reversal of perspective and the meagre, almost casual references to it, all second hand; it makes clear why Cleanthes "thought it was the duty of Greeks to indict Aristachus of Samos on the charge of impiety for putting in motion the Hearth of the Universe...and shows that, although the theory "saved the phenomena" it was doomed as a geometer's idle whim that failed to fit observed facts. Heath's history quotes numerous thinkers, Pythagoras, Plato, Aristotle and Heraclides; Heath was a mathematician as well as classical scholar and comments throughout on Greek mathematics, noting that Aristachus' treatise "is the first extant specimen of pure geometry used with a trigonometrical object..."

Ref. 3464
Autor: Heath, Thomas
Idioma: English
Editorial: Dover (New York)
1981
13,50x21,50 cm.
425 páginas. Cubiertas en rústica protegidas con plástico por anterior propietario. Firma. algunos subrayados. Buen estado.

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