CLA160H1 Final: CLA203 Exam Review.docx
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280 bce, pupil of the wandering philosopher straton of lampsacus. Suggested that the diameter of the earth s orbit round the sun bears the same proportion to the distance of the fixed stars as the centre of the sphere bears to its surface. Implies that the sphere of the fixed stars is infinite. Only work that has been preserved is the short treatise on the sizes and distances of the. Sun and the moon but contains no hint of his heliocentric theory. Archimedes refers to this theory in his work the sand-reckoner. Says aristarchus brings about a book of certain hypotheses in which in follows from what is assumed that the universe is many times larger than what is to be believed to be at the present time of archimedes writing. The earth is borne around the on the circumference of a circle. Meant that the sphere of the fixed stars is immeasurably greater than the its axis.
