What We Can Learn from a Diagram: The Case of Aristarchus's On The Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon

DOI10.1080/00033790701336841MaRDI QIDQ3404144zbMATH OpenOpenAlexWikidataFDO

Authors Nathan Sidoli

Publication date 8 February 2010

Published in Annals of Science (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1080/00033790701336841

zbMATH Keywords

Aristarchusdiagrams

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mathematics in the Golden Age of Islam (01A30) Historiography (01A85)

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