The Copernicus of Antiquity Aristarchus of Samos
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Open to serious objections, and we are thrown back on GREEK ASTRONOMY TO ARISTARCHUS 37 the reading of the MSS. Now it " leaps to the eyes " that, if the name of Heraclides of Pontus is left out, everything is in order. "This is why one astronomer has actually suggested that, by assuming the earth to move in a certain way, and the sun to be in a certain way at rest, the apparent irregularity with reference to the sun will be saved. " This seems to be the solution of the puzzle suggested by the ...ordinary principles of textual criticism, and is so simple and natural that it will surely carry conviction to the minds of unbiassed persons. Geminus, in fact, mentioned no name but meant Aristarchus of Samos, and some scholiast, re- membering that Heraclides had given a certain motion to the earth (namely, rotation about its axis), immediately thought of Heraclides and inserted his name in the margin, from which it afterwards crept into the text.
It is only necessary to add that Archimedes is not likely to have been wrong when he attributed the first suggestion of the Copernican hypothesis to Aristarchus of Samos in express terms ; and this is confirmed by another positive statement by Aetius, already quoted, that " Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythago- rean made the earth move, not in the sense of translation, but with a movement of rotation ".
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To quickly assess the difficulty of the text, read a short excerpt:
Open to serious objections, and we are thrown back on GREEK ASTRONOMY TO ARISTARCHUS 37 the reading of the MSS. Now it " leaps to the eyes " that, if the name of Heraclides of Pontus is left out, everything is in order. "This is why one astronomer has actually suggested that, by assuming the earth to move in a certain way, and the sun to be in a certain way at rest, the apparent irregularity with reference to the sun will be saved. " This seems to be the solution of the puzzle suggested by the ...ordinary principles of textual criticism, and is so simple and natural that it will surely carry conviction to the minds of unbiassed persons. Geminus, in fact, mentioned no name but meant Aristarchus of Samos, and some scholiast, re- membering that Heraclides had given a certain motion to the earth (namely, rotation about its axis), immediately thought of Heraclides and inserted his name in the margin, from which it afterwards crept into the text.
It is only necessary to add that Archimedes is not likely to have been wrong when he attributed the first suggestion of the Copernican hypothesis to Aristarchus of Samos in express terms ; and this is confirmed by another positive statement by Aetius, already quoted, that " Heraclides of Pontus and Ecphantus the Pythago- rean made the earth move, not in the sense of translation, but with a movement of rotation ".
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