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Aristarchus's 3rd century BCE calculations on the relative sizes of, from left, the Sun, Earth and Moon, from a 10th-century CE Greek copy. On the Sizes and Distances (of the Sun and Moon) (Ancient Greek: Περὶ μεγεθῶν καὶ ἀποστημάτων [ἡλίου καὶ σελήνης], romanized: Perì megethôn kaì apostēmátōn [hēlíou kaì selḗnēs]) is widely accepted ...
Aristarchus of Samos (/ ˌ æ r ə ˈ s t ɑːr k ə s /; Ancient Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, Aristarkhos ho Samios; c. 310 – c. 230 BC) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year and rotating about its axis once a day.
Kojiki (completed in 712 CE) with translation [clarification needed] by Donald L. Philippi [5] Nihon Shoki (completed in 720) with translation by W. G. Aston [6] Shoku Nihongi (covering 697 to 791) with translation by J. B. Snellen [7] Kogo Shūi (completed in 807) with translation by Genchi Katō and Hikoshirō Hoshino [8]
The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements (translation) A History of Greek Mathematics (for full list, see below) Spouse: Ada Mary Thomas: Children: Geoffrey Thomas Heath Veronica Mary Heath: Parent(s) Samuel Heath Mary Little: Awards: Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath Knight Commander of the Royal Victorian Order Fellow of the Royal ...
A lost literary work (referred throughout this article just as a lost work) is a document, literary work, or piece of multimedia, produced of which no surviving copies are known to exist, meaning it can be known only through reference.
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Other works in the collection included Aristarchus' On the Sizes and Distances, Autolycus' On Rising and Settings and On the Moving Sphere, Euclid's Catoptrics, Data, Optics, and Phenomena, Hypsicles' On Ascensions, Theodosius' On Geographic Places and On Days and Nights, and Menelaus' Spherics. Often several of these were bound together in a ...
The Japanese Wikipedia (ウィキペディア日本語版, Wikipedia Nihongoban, lit. ' Japanese version of Wikipedia ') is the Japanese edition of Wikipedia, a free, open-source online encyclopedia. Started on 11 May 2001, [1] the edition attained the 200,000 article mark in April 2006 and the 500,000 article mark in June 2008.