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- novel idea in the 4th century BC. In most modern reconstructions of the Eudoxan model, the Moon is ****igned three spheres: The outermost rotates westward...
- celestial sphere, revolving about the Earth in one day, and a fixed Earth. The Eudoxan planetary model, on which the Aristotelian and Ptolemaic models were based...
- Atmospheric explanations for many phenomena were preferred because the Eudoxan–Aristotelian model based on perfectly concentric spheres was not intended...
- whose own pupil Callippus offered well-received modifications of the Eudoxan theory of homocentric spheres. He also contributed to the calendar and...
- layout of Atlantis as a sort of map of the sky". Empedocles' Mixture, Eudoxan Astronomy and Aristotle's Connate. (1960). A.M. Hakkert. "Myth and Magic...
- Journal for the History of Astronomy 39 (2008) 77-90 'A ‘Watermark’ of Eudoxan Astronomy', Journal for the History of Astronomy 39 (2008) 213-228 'Caspar...
- Ercolanesi 4 (1974), 89–92 ‘Epicurus, On nature, Book XI: an argument against Eudoxan astronomy’ in Proceedings of the XIV International Congress of Papyrology...
- di filologia classica 24 (1949) 235–248. Review of Empedocles' Mixture, Eudoxan Astronomy and Aristotle's Connate Pneuma by Harald A. T. Reiche (Amsterdam...