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Diese Arbeit stellt den griechischen Astronom Aristarch von Samos (ca. 320 bis 250 v. Chr.), sein Werk und sein Nachleben vor. Neben dem handschriftlich erhaltenen Traktat verfasste Aristarch eine Reihe anderer Schriften, deren Themen und Titel bei spateren Autoren uberliefert sind. Geistesgeschichtlich bei weitem am bedeutendsten wurde die von Archimedes zitierte Abhandlung uber die Heliozentrik, deren Rezeption bis in die fruhe Neuzeit ausfuhrlich dargestellt wird. Weitere Kapitel behandeln die arabischen Ubersetzungen von aperi megethono, betrieben Uberlieferungsgeschichte mit dem von Martin Sicherl begrundeten und von Dieter Harlfinger fortgefuhrten Ansatz und besprechen 134 Scholien (davon 40 uberhaupt noch nicht edierte Stucke). Die 40 neu aufgefundenen Scholien werden erstmals ediert, ubersetzt und erlautert. Ein umfangreiches Literaturverzeichnis, Namen-, Sach- und Handschriften-Indizes sowie Abbildungen beschliessen den Band. ... Read more

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Chapters: 220 Bc Births, 220 Bc Deaths, Conon of Samos, Philo of Byzantium, Pacuvius, Attalus Ii Philadelphus, Molon, Aristarchus of Samothrace, Alexander. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 30. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: Philo of Byzantium (Greek: ), also known as Philo Mechanicus, was a Greek engineer and writer on mechanics, lived during the latter half of the 3nd century BCE. He was probably younger than Ctesibius, though some place him a century earlier. Philo was the author of a large work, Mechanike syntaxis (Compendium of Mechanics), which contained the following sections: The military sections Belopoeica and Poliorcetica are extant in Greek, detailing missiles, the construction of fortresses, provisioning, attack and defence, as are fragments of Isagoge and Automatopoeica (ed. R. Schone, 1893, with German translation in Hermann August Theodor Köchly's Griechische Kriegsschriftsteller, vol. i. 1853; E. A. Rochas d'Aiglun, Poliorcetique des Grecs, 1872). Another portion of the work, on pneumatic engines, has been preserved in the form of a Latin translation (De ingeniis spiritualibus) made from an Arabic version (ed. W. Schmidt, with German translation, in the works of Heron of Alexandria, vol. i., in the Teubner series, 1899; with French translation by Rochas, La Science des philosophes... dans l'antiquité, 1882). Further portions probably survive in a derivative form, incorporated into the works of Vitruvius and of Arabic authors. The Philo line, a geometric construction that can be used to double the cube, is attributed to Philo. A treatise conventionally titled De septem mundi miraculis, on the Seven Wonders of the World, is ascribed to Philo of Byzantium, but belongs to a much later date, probably the 6th century A.D. It is printed in R. Hercher's edition of Aelian...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=1186281 ... Read more