Hardcover
1959 · Oxford
by HEATH, Sir Thomas
Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1959. Hardcover. Fine/Near Fine. Second edition, using sheets of the 1913 first edition. Tall octavo. Blue cloth gilt. Fine in near fine price-clipped dust jacket with slight toning at the spine and extremities, with a small creased tear. A classic and highly regarded text broken down into two major parts: "A History of Greek Astronomy to Aristarchus" and "Aristarchus's Treatise On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon." The book demonstrates that Aristarchus wrote the first written document which upheld the Copernican theory eighteen-hundred years before that treatise was published. In the preface, Heath defends Aristarchus (truncated)
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