Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus

Whilst the greatest effort has been made to ensure the quality of this text, due to the historical nature of this content, in some rare cases there may be minor issues with legibility. Voltaire, as is well known, went sadly wrong over Aristarchus Philosop/zz''que, s.v. He said that Ari starchus ''is so obscure that Wallis was obliged to annotate him from one end to the other, in the effort to make...