Böcker av Thomas L. Heath

From its beginnings in Babylonian and Egyptian theories, through its flowering into revolutionary ideas such as heliocentricity, astronomy proved a source of constant fascination for the philosophers of antiquity. In ancient Greece, the earliest written evidence of astronomical knowledge appeared in the poems of Homer and Hesiod. In the present work, first published in 1932, Sir Thomas Little Heath (1861-1940) collects some of the most notable essays and discussions of astronomical theory by Greek astronomers and mathematicians, presenting them in English translation for the modern reader. With chronological coverage, Heath's book features a thorough introduction, a doxography of what ancient authors said about the earliest theorists and longer excerpts exploring fundamental ideas. Among the pieces are extracts from Plato's Republic and Ptolemy's work on the impossibility of a moving Earth, alongside material from Aristotle, Euclid, Strabo, Plutarch and others.

Sir Thomas Little Heath used his time away from his job as a civil servant to publish many works on the subject of ancient mathematics. First published in 1926, this book contains the final volume of his three-volume English translation of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements, covering Books Ten to Thirteen.

Sir Thomas Little Heath used his time away from his job as a civil servant to publish many works on the subject of ancient mathematics. First published in 1926, this book contains the second volume of his three-volume English translation of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements, covering Books Three to Nine.

Sir Thomas Little Heath used his time away from his job as a civil servant to publish many works on the subject of ancient mathematics. First published in 1926, this book contains the first volume of his three-volume English translation of the thirteen books of Euclid's Elements, covering Books One and Two.