Eudoxus' simultaneous risings and settings

DOI10.1007/S00407-023-00309-XMaRDI QIDQ6100772zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Francesca Schironi

Publication date 22 June 2023

Published in Archive for History of Exact Sciences (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1007/s00407-023-00309-x

zbMATH Keywords

AratusastronomyHipparchusrisingssettings

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20)

Review text

The works of fourth-century BCE astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus included two treatises -- the \textit{Phaenomena} and the \textit{Enoptron} -- that identified constellations that rise above, or set below, the horizon when certain other constellations rise. Reconstructing the precise meanings of Eudoxus's reports is difficult, partly because the fragments of Eudoxus's writings that we have come from works by Aratus and by Hipparchus of Rhodes a couple of centuries later. The author clears up some confusion about these fragments by postulating that Eudoxus used two different reporting systems: (i) the constellations that rose/set when a zodiacal constellation was beginning to rise; and (ii) the constellations that rose/set during the entire time it takes a zodiacal constellation to rise.

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