 | Francis Sydney Marvin - 1923 - 362 pages
...that it can never have been favourably received. We learn from Plutarch that Kleanthes the Stoic ' held that Aristarchus of Samos ought to be accused of impiety for moving the hearth of the world'; but prejudice of that kind can hardly have prevented the new hypothesis from being a success. But the... | |
 | N.R. Hanson - 1973 - 306 pages
...On the Marriage of Philology and Mercury. VIII. 6 Thus Archimedes says: Plutarch remarks : Cleanthes held that Aristarchus of Samos ought to be accused of impiety for moving the heart of the world.7 From Plutarch also8 it seems that Seleukus adopted Aristarchus' heliocentric hypothesis,... | |
 | Terrot Reaveley Glover - 1933 - 142 pages
...confirms this, and illustrates the limitations of his school and the traditionalism of the age; for he held "that Aristarchus of Samos ought to be accused of impiety for moving the hearth of the universe (cosmos) ; for the man, in order to save the phaenomena, supposed that the heavens stand still... | |
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... to its discussion, and the fact, that his book on the distance of the sun does not contain anything on the subject, tends to confirm this impression. We possess only two other very brief references to the hypothesis by other writers. The first of... 