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On Bodies Carried Down by Their Weight
work by Hipparchus
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- In Hipparchus: Other scientific work: Star catalog, geography, and trigonometry of Hipparchus
For instance, On Bodies Carried Down by Their Weight speculated on the principles of weight and motion, and a work on optics adhered to Euclid’s theory from the Optics that vision is produced by an emanation of rays from the eyes. Hipparchus’s calculation of the exact number…
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