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Purchase of this book includes free trial access to www.million-books.com where you can read more than a million books for free. This is an OCR edition with typos. Excerpt from book: CHAPTER IX THE FLYING EARTH: THE FIXITY OF THE SUN From out the wrecks of time not much of the learning of the ancients has been saved. Goth and Hun, priestly zealots and fanatical conquerors, left little, and on what they left the worms have fed. The library in Alexandria was, all things considered, certainly the most wonderful gathering of books which ever existed?700,000 volumes, copied by hand. It would represent a hundred times the value of the great libraries now existing. We do not know that a single volume of it remains. From the torch of Caesar's legions, and the wild rabble of Christians under Theophilus who sacked and burned it four hundred years after, not much was spared to give body to the myth of the conquering Omar who came four centuries later still. So of the works of Aristarchus there has come down only the thin volume wherein he sets forth the measures of the sun and moon. It is to another small volume, four lines at that, that we owe our knowledge of what views he held of the world he had thus surveyed. This was that strange Arenarius, or sand-reckoner, wherein Archimedes attempts to show how it is possible to express in figures the number of grains of sand that the whole celestial sphere might hold were it filled full. It is the play of an intellectual prestidigitateur, a juggler who takes numbers for balls to toss and the universe for his stage. He tells us that he will not take for the radius of the stellar sphere merely the distance of the sun from the earth, as most of the astronomers do; he will show that he may cope even with the ideas of Aristarchus. And so we chance to know what this celebrated Aristarchus taught?that the distance of the stars is incommensurable to men. It is easy to think that these ideas of the ancients were mere...


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  • ISBN-13: 9780217404464
  • Publisher: General Books
  • Publisher Imprint: General Books
  • Height: 246 mm
  • No of Pages: 156
  • Spine Width: 8 mm
  • Width: 189 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0217404464
  • Publisher Date: 14 Jan 2012
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 290 gr


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