Abstract

But as Eudoxus made no attempt to connect the movements of the various groups of spheres with each other, it seems probable that he only regarded them as geometrical constructions suitable for computing the apparent paths of the planets . . . the system of homocentric spheres which Aristotle had borrowed from Eudoxus [he] modified from a mathematical theory into a physical representation of the Kosmos . . .l

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