阿基米德知道地球是圆的吗
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发布时间：2022-04-22 05:56
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时间：2023-09-23 11:20
那是阿基米德自己的想法.
阿基米德认为地球是圆球状的,并围绕着太阳旋转,这一观点比哥白尼的“日心地动说”要早一千八百年.限于当时的条件,他并没有就这个问题做深入系统的研究.
在古代希腊,思想是非常开放和自由的,阿基米德增经用球体模拟出过月食和日食.所以他认为地球是圆的!
The Sandreckoner is a remarkable work in which Archimedes proposes a number system capable of expressing numbers up to 8 1063in modern notation.He argues in this work that this number is large enough to count the number of grains of sand which could be fitted into the universe.There are also important historical remarks in this work,for Archimedes has to give the dimensions of the universe to be able to count the number of grains of sand which it could contain.He states that Aristarchus has proposed a system with the sun at the centre and the planets,including the Earth,revolving round it.In quoting results on the dimensions he states results e to Eudoxus,Phidias (his father),and to Aristarchus.There are other sources which mention Archimedes' work on distances to the heavenly bodies.For example in [59] Osborne reconstructs and discusses:-
...a theory of the distances of the heavenly bodies ascribed to Archimedes,but the corrupt state of the numerals in the sole surviving manuscript [e to Hippolytus of Rome,about 220 AD] means that the material is difficult to handle.
从这段外国文献资料来看,阿基米德应该已经初步察觉到宇宙是一个system,并且有heavenly bodies的意识,虽然他并没有遗留下手稿,而他所指出的Earth并不指地球,但大概是陆地的意思.我认为阿基米德是想表达的Earth是指人类生存的*而不一定是地球这个球体.
