This classic work by Sir Thomas Heath, a leading historian of Greek science, traces Aristarchus of Samos''s anticipation by two millennia of Copernicus''s revolutionary theory of the orbital motion of the earth. Heath''s history of astronomy ranges from Homer and Hesiod to Aristarchus and includes q[...]
Archimedes lived in the third century BC, and died in the siege of Syracuse. Together with Euclid and Apollonius, he was one of the three great mathematicians of the ancient world, credited with astonishing breadth of thought and brilliance of insight. His practical inventions included the water-scr[...]