Heraclides and Heliocentrism: Texts, Diagrams, and Interpretations
@article{Eastwood1992HeraclidesAH, title={Heraclides and Heliocentrism: Texts, Diagrams, and Interpretations}, author={B. Eastwood}, journal={Journal for the History of Astronomy}, year={1992}, volume={23}, pages={233 - 260} }
For over a century Heraclides of Pontus (4th century B.C.) has stood with Aristarchus of Samos (3rd century B.C.) as one of the ancient precursors of Copernicus. Heraclides is supposed to have advanced not only a hypothesis that the Earth rotates on its axis once a day but also the idea that the Sun as easily as the Earth may be a centre of planetary motion. There is, however, a very simple historical difficulty with this widely assumed view of Heraclides's planetary doctrines. Whereas… Expand
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