A history of Greek mathematics Vol.II from Aristarchus to Diophantus by Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1921
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MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine)
ΚΑΤΩ Η ΣΥΓΚΥΒΕΡΝΗΣΗ ΤΩΝ ΠΡΟΔΟΤΩΝ!!!
ΦΕΚ,ΚΚΕ,ΚΝΕ,ΚΟΜΜΟΥΝΙΣΜΟΣ,ΣΥΡΙΖΑ,ΠΑΣΟΚ,ΝΕΑ ΔΗΜΟΚΡΑΤΙΑ,ΕΓΚΛΗΜΑΤΑ,ΔΑΠ-ΝΔΦΚ, MACEDONIA,ΣΥΜΜΟΡΙΤΟΠΟΛΕΜΟΣ,ΠΡΟΣΦΟΡΕΣ,ΥΠΟΥΡΓΕΙΟ,ΕΝΟΠΛΕΣ ΔΥΝΑΜΕΙΣ,ΣΤΡΑΤΟΣ, ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΑ,ΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΙΑ,ΔΗΜΑΡΧΕΙΟ,ΝΟΜΑΡΧΙΑ,ΠΑΝΕΠΙΣΤΗΜΙΟ,ΛΟΓΟΤΕΧΝΙΑ,ΔΗΜΟΣ,LIFO,ΛΑΡΙΣΑ, ΠΕΡΙΦΕΡΕΙΑ,ΕΚΚΛΗΣΙΑ,ΟΝΝΕΔ,ΜΟΝΗ,ΠΑΤΡΙΑΡΧΕΙΟ,ΜΕΣΗ ΕΚΠΑΙΔΕΥΣΗ,ΙΑΤΡΙΚΗ,ΟΛΜΕ,ΑΕΚ,ΠΑΟΚ,ΦΙΛΟΛΟΓΙΚΑ,ΝΟΜΟΘΕΣΙΑ,ΔΙΚΗΓΟΡΙΚΟΣ,ΕΠΙΠΛΟ, ΣΥΜΒΟΛΑΙΟΓΡΑΦΙΚΟΣ,ΕΛΛΗΝΙΚΑ,ΜΑΘΗΜΑΤΙΚΑ,ΝΕΟΛΑΙΑ,ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΚΑ,ΙΣΤΟΡΙΑ,ΙΣΤΟΡΙΚΑ,ΑΥΓΗ,ΤΑ ΝΕΑ,ΕΘΝΟΣ,ΣΟΣΙΑΛΙΣΜΟΣ,LEFT,ΕΦΗΜΕΡΙΔΑ,ΚΟΚΚΙΝΟ,ATHENS VOICE,ΧΡΗΜΑ,ΟΙΚΟΝΟΜΙΑ,ΕΝΕΡΓΕΙΑ, ΡΑΤΣΙΣΜΟΣ,ΠΡΟΣΦΥΓΕΣ,GREECE,ΚΟΣΜΟΣ,ΜΑΓΕΙΡΙΚΗ,ΣΥΝΤΑΓΕΣ,ΕΛΛΗΝΙΣΜΟΣ,ΕΛΛΑΔΑ, ΕΜΦΥΛΙΟΣ,ΤΗΛΕΟΡΑΣΗ,ΕΓΚΥΚΛΙΟΣ,ΡΑΔΙΟΦΩΝΟ,ΓΥΜΝΑΣΤΙΚΗ,ΑΓΡΟΤΙΚΗ,ΟΛΥΜΠΙΑΚΟΣ, ΜΥΤΙΛΗΝΗ,ΧΙΟΣ,ΣΑΜΟΣ,ΠΑΤΡΙΔΑ,ΒΙΒΛΙΟ,ΕΡΕΥΝΑ,ΠΟΛΙΤΙΚΗ,ΚΥΝΗΓΕΤΙΚΑ,ΚΥΝΗΓΙ,ΘΡΙΛΕΡ, ΠΕΡΙΟΔΙΚΟ,ΤΕΥΧΟΣ,ΜΥΘΙΣΤΟΡΗΜΑ,ΑΔΩΝΙΣ ΓΕΩΡΓΙΑΔΗΣ,GEORGIADIS,ΦΑΝΤΑΣΤΙΚΕΣ ΙΣΤΟΡΙΕΣ, ΑΣΤΥΝΟΜΙΚΑ,ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΗ,ΦΙΛΟΣΟΦΙΚΑ,ΙΚΕΑ,ΜΑΚΕΔΟΝΙΑ,ΑΤΤΙΚΗ,ΘΡΑΚΗ,ΘΕΣΣΑΛΟΝΙΚΗ,ΠΑΤΡΑ, ΙΟΝΙΟ,ΚΕΡΚΥΡΑ,ΚΩΣ,ΡΟΔΟΣ,ΚΑΒΑΛΑ,ΜΟΔΑ,ΔΡΑΜΑ,ΣΕΡΡΕΣ,ΕΥΡΥΤΑΝΙΑ,ΠΑΡΓΑ,ΚΕΦΑΛΟΝΙΑ, ΙΩΑΝΝΙΝΑ,ΛΕΥΚΑΔΑ,ΣΠΑΡΤΗ,ΠΑΞΟΙ
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HYPSICLES 215<br />
natural <strong>to</strong> divide each <strong>of</strong> the sixth parts in<strong>to</strong> either 10 or 60<br />
parts; the former division would account for the attested<br />
division <strong>of</strong> the clay in<strong>to</strong> 60 hours, while the latter division on<br />
the sexagesimal system would give the 360 time-degrees (each<br />
<strong>of</strong> 4 minutes) making up the day <strong>of</strong> 24 hours. The purely<br />
arithmetical explanation is defective in that the series <strong>of</strong><br />
numbers for which the Ba<strong>by</strong>lonians had special names is not<br />
60, 360, 3600 but 60 (Soss), 600 (Ner), and 3600 or 60 2 (Sar).<br />
On the whole, after all that has been said, I know <strong>of</strong> no<br />
better suggestion than that <strong>of</strong> Tannery. 1 It is certain that<br />
both the division <strong>of</strong> the ecliptic in<strong>to</strong> 360 degrees and that <strong>of</strong><br />
the wxOrjpepw in<strong>to</strong> 360 time-degrees were adopted <strong>by</strong> the<br />
<strong>Greek</strong>s <strong>from</strong> Ba<strong>by</strong>lon. Now the earliest division <strong>of</strong> the<br />
ecliptic was in<strong>to</strong> 12 parts, the signs, and the question is, how<br />
were the signs subdivided ? Tannery observes that, according<br />
<strong>to</strong> the cuneiform inscriptions, as well as the testimony <strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>Greek</strong> authors, the sign was divided in<strong>to</strong> parts one <strong>of</strong> which<br />
(dargatu) was double <strong>of</strong> the other (murra n), the former being<br />
l/30th, the other (called stadium <strong>by</strong> Manilius) l/60th, <strong>of</strong> the<br />
sign ;<br />
the former division would give 360 parts, the latter 720<br />
parts for the whole circle. The latter division was more<br />
natural, in view <strong>of</strong> the long-established system <strong>of</strong> sexagesimal<br />
fractions; it also had the advantage <strong>of</strong> corresponding <strong>to</strong>lerably<br />
closely <strong>to</strong> the apparent diameter <strong>of</strong> the sun in comparison<br />
with the circumference <strong>of</strong> the sun's apparent circle. But, on<br />
the other hand, the double fraction, the l/30th, was contained<br />
in the circle <strong>of</strong> the zodiac approximately the same number <strong>of</strong><br />
times as there are days in the year, and consequently corresponded<br />
nearly <strong>to</strong> the distance described <strong>by</strong> the sun along the<br />
zodiac in one day. It would seem that this advantage was<br />
sufficient <strong>to</strong> turn the scale in favour <strong>of</strong> dividing each sign <strong>of</strong><br />
the zodiac in<strong>to</strong> 30 parts, giving 360 parts for the whole<br />
circle. While the Chaldaeans thus divided the ecliptic in<strong>to</strong><br />
360 parts, it does not appear that they applied the same division<br />
<strong>to</strong> the equa<strong>to</strong>r or any other circle. They measured angles<br />
representing 2°, so that the complete<br />
in general <strong>by</strong> ells, an ell<br />
circle contained 180, not 360, parts, which they called ells.<br />
The explanation may perhaps be that the Chaldaeans divided<br />
1<br />
Tannery, 'La coudee astronomique et les anciennes divisions du<br />
cercle ' (Memo ires scientifiques, ii, pp. 256-68).<br />
216 SUCCESSORS OF THE GREAT GEOMETERS<br />
the diameter <strong>of</strong>. the circle in<strong>to</strong> 60 ells in accordance with their<br />
usual sexagesimal division, and then came <strong>to</strong> divide the circumference<br />
in<strong>to</strong> 180 such ells on the ground that the circumference<br />
is roughly three times the diameter. The measurement<br />
in ells and dactyli (<strong>of</strong> which there were 24 <strong>to</strong> the ell)<br />
survives in Hipparchus (On the Phaenomena <strong>of</strong> Eudoxus and<br />
Aratus), and some measurements in terms <strong>of</strong> the same units<br />
are given <strong>by</strong> P<strong>to</strong>lemy. It was Hipparchus who first divided<br />
the circle in general in<strong>to</strong> 360 parts or degrees, and the<br />
introduction <strong>of</strong> this division coincides with his invention <strong>of</strong><br />
trigonometry.<br />
The contents <strong>of</strong> Hypsicles's tract need not detain us long.<br />
The problem is : If we know the ratio which the length <strong>of</strong> the<br />
longest day bears <strong>to</strong> the length <strong>of</strong> the shortest day at any<br />
given place, <strong>to</strong> find how many time-degrees it takes any given<br />
sign <strong>to</strong> rise ; and, after this has been found, the author finds<br />
what length <strong>of</strong> time it takes any given degree in any sign <strong>to</strong><br />
rise, i.e. the interval between the rising <strong>of</strong> one degree-point on<br />
the ecliptic and that <strong>of</strong> the next following. It is explained<br />
that the longest day is<br />
the time during which one half <strong>of</strong> the<br />
zodiac (Cancer, Leo, Virgo, Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius) rises,<br />
and the shortest day the time during which the other half<br />
(Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces, Aries, Taurus, Gemini) rises.<br />
Now at Alexandria the longest day is <strong>to</strong> the shortest as 7<br />
<strong>to</strong> 5; the longest therefore contains 210 'time-degrees', the<br />
shortest 150. The two quadrants Cancer-Virgo and Libra-<br />
Sagittarius take the same time <strong>to</strong> rise, namely 105 timedegrees,<br />
and the two quadrants Capricornus-Pisces and Aries-<br />
Gemini each take the same time, namely 75 time-degrees.<br />
It is further assumed that the times taken <strong>by</strong> Virgo, Leo,<br />
Cancer, Gemini, Taurus, Aries are in descending arithmetical<br />
progression, while the times taken <strong>by</strong> Libra, Scorpio, Sagittarius,<br />
Capricornus, Aquarius, Pisces continue the same descending<br />
arithmetical series. The following lemmas are used<br />
and proved :<br />
I. If a 1?<br />
a 2<br />
...a n<br />
,<br />
a<br />
n + J<br />
> a<br />
w+2<br />
... a 2w is a descending arithmetical<br />
progression <strong>of</strong> 2 n terms with 8 ( = a x<br />
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