Timeline for Did Archimedes know about Callipus?
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| Apr 13, 2017 at 12:51 | history | edited | CommunityBot |
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| Aug 31, 2015 at 17:49 | comment | added | Conifold | @fdb His guess is not that Calippus accepted the theory but that it was necessary to insert them to engineer a working model with several planets. He does say that Aristotle was the first to reify the counterspheres. | |
| Aug 28, 2015 at 23:05 | comment | added | fdb | In Book Λ of the “Metaphysics” Aristotle makes it very clear that the theory of “counterspheres” is his own “improvement” on Eudoxus and Callipus, increasing the total number of spheres from Callippus’ 33 to 55. I do not understand why Sedley thinks that Callipus accepted the theory of counterspheres | |
| Aug 26, 2015 at 2:50 | history | edited | Conifold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |
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| Aug 26, 2015 at 1:07 | history | answered | Conifold | CC BY-SA 3.0 |