Description: PREFATORY NOTE INTRODUCTION EPIGRAM by PTOLEMY DOXOGRAPHY: THALES ANAXIMANDER PYTHAGORAS ALCMAEON XENOPHANES HERACLITUS PARMENIDES EMPEDOCLES ANAXAGORAS THE PYTHAGOREANS LEUCIPPUS DEMOCRITUS PLATO: The study of astronomy The Heavenly Choir Anaxagoras and Mind The earth The Myth of Er The creation of the universe "Time: sun, moon, and planets" Form and movements of fixed stars The earth and the planets The stars animate beings: motion and names of planets EUDOXUS (AND CALLIPPUS): System of concentric spheres Callippus' additions to the system Aristotle's modification Simplicius on ARISTOTLE: Motion and the prime movent "The stars and the heaven: shape, motions, distances, and speeds: supposed "harmony" "The earth: its position, shape, rest or motion: historical sketch" Spherical shape of the earth HERACLIDES OF PONTUS: Rotation of the earth on its axis Motion of Mercury and Venus round the sun EUCLID: Preface to Phaenomena ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS: On the sizes and distances of the sun and moon The heliocentric system: Copernicus anticipated ERATOSTHENES: Measurement of the earth ARATUS: "Phaenomena, ll. 1-73, 91-136" Comments of HIPPARCHUS POSIDONIUS: Measurement of the earth GEMINUS: On physics and astronomy "The zodiac: motions therein of sun, moon, and planets" On day and night "Months, years, and cycles" "Cycles of Meton, Callippus, and Hipparchus" HIPPARCHUS: Hipparchus' cycle Discovery of precession of the equinoxes PTOLEMY: The earth does not change its position in any way whatever Arguments against the earth's rotation STRABO: On the zones "TREATISE "DE MUNDO":" "De Mundo (from Aristotelian corpus), cc. 5-6" CLEOMEDES: "On a "paradoxical" eclipse of the moon" PLUTARCH: On the face in the moon?De facie in orbe lunae: extracts APPENDIX: The Constellations of the Northern Hemisphere INDEX

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