 | John Lord - 1867 - 608 pàgines
...fixed stars having the same centre as the sun, is of such magnitude that the orbit of the earth is to the distance of the fixed stars, as the centre of the sphere of the fixed stars is to its surface." 2 This speculation, resting on the authority of Archimedes,... | |
 | Archimedes - 1897 - 532 pàgines
...which the premisses lead to the result that the universe is many times greater than that now so called. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun...as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface. Now it is easy to see that this is impossible ; for, since the centre of the sphere has no magnitude,... | |
 | Sir Thomas Little Heath - 1920 - 72 pàgines
...heliocentric hypothesis occurs, in order to show the whole context. " You are aware [' you ' being King Gelon] that ' universe ' is the name given by most astronomers...the centre of the sphere bears to its surface." The heliocentric hypothesis is here stated in language which leaves no room for doubt about its meaning.... | |
 | Sir Thomas Little Heath - 1920 - 74 pàgines
...as the sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the earth to revolve bears such a ratio to the distance of the fixed stars as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface." Here then is absolute and practically contemporary evidence that the Greeks, in the person of Aristarchus... | |
 | Sir Thomas Little Heath - 1921 - 612 pàgines
...the fixed stars is so great that the circle in which he supposes the earth to revolve (round the sun) ‘bears such a proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the centre of the sphire bears to its surface'. If this is taken in a strictly mathematical sense, it means that the... | |
 | Sir William Cecil Dampier Dampier, Margaret Dampier Dampier - 1924 - 312 pàgines
...which the premisses lead to the result that the universe is many times greater than that now so called. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun...as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface. Now it is easy to see that this is impossible; for, since the centre of the sphere has no magnitude,... | |
 | Harry Fawcett Buckley - 1927 - 288 pàgines
...as the sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the earth to revolve bears such a ratio to the distance of the fixed stars as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface." This passage leaves no doubt that Aristarchus had in mind a very definite heliocentric theory similar... | |
 | Willis Lemon Uhl - 1927 - 612 pàgines
...as the sun, is so great that the circle in which he supposes the earth to revolve bears such a ratio to the distance of the fixed stars as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface.1 4. Science. The teaching of science among the Greeks was subordinated to the teaching of... | |
 | B. Biékowska - 1973 - 170 pàgines
...that the (real) universe is many times greater than the one just mentioned. His hypotheses are that fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, that the Earth...stars as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface — To express the meaning of this passage in plainer words, Aristarchos attempted to explain the observed... | |
 | N.R. Hanson - 1973 - 306 pàgines
...of a circle, the sun lying in the middle of the orbit12, and that the sphere of the fixed stars ... is so great that the circle in which he supposes the...as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface. '3 But again, this second explanation was regarded - and in the historical context rightly so - as... | |
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His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that the earth revolves about the sun in the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the middle of the orbit, and that the sphere of the fixed stars, situated about the same centre... 
