Early Physics and Astronomy: A Historical IntroductionMacDonald and Janes, 1974 - 413 oldal |
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... rotation about its own axis . Another Pythagorean , Ecphantos from Syracuse , ( c . 400 B.C. ) discarded the central fire , replacing it by the Earth , so that the diurnal motion of the heavens is explained by the daily rotation of the ...
... rotation about its own axis . Another Pythagorean , Ecphantos from Syracuse , ( c . 400 B.C. ) discarded the central fire , replacing it by the Earth , so that the diurnal motion of the heavens is explained by the daily rotation of the ...
75. oldal
... rotations around axes through its centre . This is , without doubt , an inheritance from Pythagorean astronomy . In his lunar theory Eudoxos used three such spheres , of which the outermost accounts for the diurnal rotation of the Moon ...
... rotations around axes through its centre . This is , without doubt , an inheritance from Pythagorean astronomy . In his lunar theory Eudoxos used three such spheres , of which the outermost accounts for the diurnal rotation of the Moon ...
316. oldal
... rotation of the Earth is found in Book I of the Almagest , where Ptolemy maintains that if the Earth were rotating everything on its surface would be flung away in the opposite direction to the motion . Copernicus goes even further ...
... rotation of the Earth is found in Book I of the Almagest , where Ptolemy maintains that if the Earth were rotating everything on its surface would be flung away in the opposite direction to the motion . Copernicus goes even further ...
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