Article ID: CBB000069940

Aristarchus, Thales, and Heraclitus on solar eclipses: An astronomical commentary on P. Oxy. 53.3710 cols. 2.33-3.19 (1994)

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Description “From the standpoint of the history of Greek astronomy, this passage is important as evidence of the Greek literary use of Egyptian calendrical conventions in formulating an account of solar eclipses. That this account appears in a commentary on a poem by Homer is also noteworthy, since Homer's writings were thought by some Greeks at least to be a primary source of philosophical and scientific knowledge.” Includes a critical edition of the text, a translation, and commentary.


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Authors & Contributors
Sidoli, Nathan Camillo
Panchenko, Dmitri
Ricardo Salles
Wöhrle, Georg
Wall, Byron Emerson
Waerden, Bartel Leendert van der
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Astronomy
Philosophy
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
Cosmology
Transmission of ideas
Moon
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