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• Le Sfere Omocentriche di Eudosso, di Callippo e di Aristotele (in Italian; Milan: U. Hoepli, 1875), by G. V. Schiaparelli
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• On the Heavens, by Aristotle, trans. by J. L. Stocks (HTML at Internet Classics)
• Plato's Doctrine Respecting the Rotation of the Earth, and Aristotle's Comment Upon That Doctrine (London: J. Murray, 1860), by George Grote (Gutenberg text)
• Studien zum Antiken Sternglauben (in German; Leipzig and Berlin: B. G. Teubner, 1916), by Erwin Pfeiffer
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• Theōnos Smyrnaiou Platōnikou tōn kata to mathēmatikon chrēsimōn eis tēn Platōnos anagnōsin. Théon de Smyrne, philosophe platonicien. Exposition des connaissances mathématiques utiles pour la lecture de Platon. (Hachette et cie, 1892), by of Smyrna Theon and J. Dupuis (page images at HathiTrust)
• On the heavens (Harvard university press;, 1939), by Aristotle and W. K. C. Guthrie (page images at HathiTrust)
• The skies and Weather-forecasts of Aratus (Macmillan and co., 1880), by Solensis Aratus and Edward Poste (page images at HathiTrust)
• Untersuchungen über das kosmische system des Platon (Veit & comp., 1852), by August Boeckh (page images at HathiTrust)
• Autolyci De sphaera quae movetur liber (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1885), by Autolycus and Fridericus Hultsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die kosmischen Systeme der Griechen (G. Reimer, 1851), by O. F. Gruppe (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Copernicus of antiquity (Aristarchus of Samos) (Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge;, 1920), by Thomas Little Heath (page images at HathiTrust)
• Geschichte der griechischen Astronomie bis auf Eratosthenes. (J. F. Rower, 1802), by Johann Konrad Schaubach (page images at HathiTrust)
• Hipparchou Tōn Aratou kai Eudoxou Phainomenōn exēgēseōs vivlia tria = Hipparchi in Arati et Eudoxi Phaenomena commentariorum libri tres (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1894), by active 190 B.C.-127 B.C. Hipparchus and Karl Manitius (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eratosthenis Catasterismorvm reliqviae. (apvd Weidmannos, 1878), by Eratosthenes and Karl Robert (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ioannis Lavrentii Lydi Liber de ostentis et calendaria graeca omnia. Itervm edidit Cvrtivs Wachsmvth. Accedvnt epimetra dvo. De cometis et De terrae motibvs. (in aedibvs B. G. Tevbneri, 1897), by Johannes Laurentius Lydus and Curt Wachsmuth (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ars astronomica qualis in charta aegyptiaca superest (Prostat in Libraria academica, ex officina Schmidtii et Klaunigii, 1887), by of Cnidus Eudoxus, Friedrich Blass, and Universität Kiel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vorstellungen der Griechen über die ordnung und bewegung der himmelskörper bis auf die zeit des Aristoteles, mit besonderer berücksichtigung der Sphäre des Eudoxus und Kallippus nach Aristoteles Metaphysik XII.8. ([New-Ruppin, 1839), by Johann Simon Könitzer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur l'histoire des hypothèses astronomiques chez les Grecs et les Romains (Imprimerie nationale, 1879), by Thomas Henri Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die astronomische geographie der Griechen bis auf Eratosthenes. (Gedruckt in der buchdruckerei von L.P.H. Maass, 1873), by H W. Schaefer (page images at HathiTrust)
• Theonis Smyrnaei platonici Liber de astronomia cum Sereni fragmento; textum primus edidit, latine vertit, descriptionibus geometricis, dissertatione et notis illustravit Th. H. Martin ... (e Reipublicae typographeo, 1849), by of Smyrna Theon, Thomas Henri Martin, Calcidius, and Georgius Pachymeres (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kleomēdous Kyklikēs theōrias meteōrōn : vivlia dyo = Cleomedis De motu circulari corporum caelestium : libri duo (B.G. Teubneri, 1891), by Cleomedes and Hermann Ziegler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Sur l'origine du zodiaque grec et sur plusieurs points de l'astronomie et de la chronologie des Chaldéens. À l'occasion d'un mémoire de M. Ludwig Ideler ... (Impr. royal, 1840), by M. Letronne and Ludwig Ideler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Der Mensch und sein Weltbild : im Wandel vom Altertum zur Neuzeit (Quelle & Meyer, 1925), by Ernst Goldbeck (page images at HathiTrust)
• Traité d'Aristarque de Samos sur les grandeurs et les distances du soleil et de la lune. (Didot, 1823), by of Samos Aristarchus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristarchou Samiou biblion Peri megethōn kai apostēmatōn hēliou kai selēnēs. Mit kritischen berichtigungen von E. Nizze. Mit zwei Figuren-Tafeln. (Stralsund, 1856), by of Samos Aristarchus, Ernst Nizze, and Stralsund (Germany). Gymnasium (page images at HathiTrust)
• Simplikiou eis ta Aristotelous Peri ouranou hypomnēma. Simplicii commentarius in IV libros Aristotelis De caelo (apud Kemink et filium, 1865), by of Cilicia Simplicius, J. C. G. Boot, Simon Karsten, and Koninklijke Nederlandse Akademie van Wetenschappen (page images at HathiTrust)
• De platonico systemate coelestium globorum et de vera indole astronomiae philolaicae (Iosephi Engelmanni, 1810), by Jacob Fidelis Ackermann (page images at HathiTrust)
• Vorstellungen der Griechen über die Ordnung und Bewegung der Himmelskörper bis auf die Zeit des Aristoteles (G. Kuhn, 1839), by Johann Simon Könitzer and Neu-Ruppin. Friedrich-Wilhelms-Gymnasiums (page images at HathiTrust)
• De Coelo lib. IIII; De ortu & interitu II; Meteorologicorum IIII; De mundo I; Parua (ut vocant) naturalia. (Typis Wechelianis apud Claudium Marnium, & haeredes Ioannis Aubrii, 1601), by Aristotle (page images at HathiTrust)
• Ad historiam astronomiae symbola (Typis Caroli Georgi, 1876), by Hermann Usener, German Emperor William I, and Universität Bonn (page images at HathiTrust)
• Arati Diosemea (in aedibvs Valpianis, [etc.], 1815), by Solensis Aratus and T. Forster (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aratus : cum scholiis (G. Reimeri, 1828), by Solensis Aratus and Immanuel Bekker (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aratou Soleōs phainomena Kai diosēmeia. Arati Solensis Phaenomena et diosemea graece et latine ad codd. mss. et optimarvm edd. fidem recensita. Accedunt Theonis Scholia vvlgata et emendatiora e Cod. Mosqvensi, Leontii de Sphaera aratea libellvs, et versionvm Arati poeticarvm Ciceronis, Germanici, et R.F. Avieni qvae svpersvnt. (in officina Weidmannia, 1793), by Solensis Aratus, Rufius Festus Avienus, 15 B.C.-19 A.D. Germanicus Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Leontius Mechanicus, of Alexandria Theon, and Johann Gottlieb Gerhard Buhle (page images at HathiTrust)
• De caelo libri IIII (Ex officina Gabrielis Buon ..., 1560), by Aristotle, Joachim Périon, and Nicolas de Grouchy (page images at HathiTrust)
• Astronomica veterum scripta isagogica Graeca & Latina. (In Officina Sanctandreana, 1589), by Thomas Linacre, Joseph Juste Scaliger, Hyginus, 15 B.C.-19 A.D. Germanicus Caesar, Marcus Tullius Cicero, Rufius Festus Avienus, Leontius Mechanicus, Solensis Aratus, and ca. 410-485 Proclus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aratou Soleōs Phainomena kai Diosēmeia (E. Theatro Sheldoniano, 1672), by Solensis Aratus, of Alexandria Theon, Eratosthenes, and John Fell (page images at HathiTrust)
• Die Kreisbewegung der Gestirne (Akademische Verlagsgesellschaft m.b.h., 1927), by Cleomedes (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Fünf abhandlungen zur geschichte der griechischen philosophie und astronomie. (Fues's verlag (R. Reisland), 1883), by Theodor Bergk and Gustav Ludwig Wilhelm Hinrichs (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur les hypothèses astronomiques des plus anciens philosophes de la Grèce étrangers à la notion de la sphéricité de la terre. (Imprimerie nationale [etc.], 1879), by Thomas Henri Martin and Académie des inscriptions & belles-lettres (France) (page images at HathiTrust)
• De ostentis. (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1863), by Ioannes Laurentius Lydus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Plato's doctrine respecting the rotation of the earth, and Aristotle's comment upon that doctrine. (J. Murray, 1860), by George Grote (page images at HathiTrust)
• The Phenomena and Diosemeia of Aratus (London : J. W. Parker, 1848), by Solensis Aratus and John Lamb (page images at HathiTrust)
• Commentatio de ortibus et occasibus siderum apud auctores classicos commemoratis. (Gottingae, 1786), by Johann Friedrich Pfaff (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kyklikēs theōrias meteōrōn vivlia duo (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1891), by Cleomedes (page images at HathiTrust)
• Expositio rerum mathematicarum ad legendum Platonem utilium. (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1878), by of Smyrna Theon and Eduard Hiller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Fabularum liber (Apud Ioan. Hervagivm, 1535), by Hyginus, Jakob Moltzer, C. Julius Hyginus, Proclus, Solensis Aratus, Fabius Planciades Fulgentius, and Palaephatus (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eisagōgē eis ta phainomena (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1898), by Geminus and Carolus Manitius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Theonis Smyrnaei philosophi platonici : Expositio rerum mathematicarum ad legendum Platonem utilium (in aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1878), by of Smyrna Theon and Eduard Hiller (page images at HathiTrust)
• Recherches sur l'histoire de l'astronomie ancienne (Gauthier-Villars & fils, 1893), by Paul Tannery, Bernard Carra de Vaux, and Naṣīr al-Dīn Muḥammad ibn Muḥammad Ṭūsī (page images at HathiTrust)
• Aristotelea de natura astrorum opinio, eiusque vices apud philosophos tum antiquos, tum medii aevi ... (apud Ernestum Thorin, 1887), by E. Pluzanski (page images at HathiTrust)
• Mémoire sur les hypothèses astronomiques des plus anciens philosophes de la Grèce étrangers à la notion de la sphéricité de la terre (Imprimerie Nationale, 1878), by Thomas Henri Martin (page images at HathiTrust)
• The skies and Weather-forecasts of Aratus (Macmillan and Co., 1880), by Solensis Aratus (page images at HathiTrust)
• De coelo, et De generatione et corruptione. (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1881), by Aristotle and Carl Prantl (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kyklikēs theōrias meteōrōn biblia dyo. (sumptus fecit et venumdat C.H.F. Hartmannus, 1832), by Cleomedes, Carl Christian Theophil Schmidt, and Janus Bake (page images at HathiTrust)
• Histoire d'Aristarque de samos, suivie de la tradution de son ouvrage sur les distances du soleil et de al lune; de l'histoire de ceux qui ont porté le nom d'Aristarque avant Aristarque de Samos; et le commencement de celle des philosophes qui ont paru avant ce même Aristarque. (Veuve Duminil-Lesueur, 1810), by Agricole Joseph François Xavier Pierre Esprit Simon Paul Antoine Fortia d'Urban and of Samos Aristarchus (page images at HathiTrust)
• De sphaera quae movetur liber; De ortibus et occasibus libri duo (in aedibus B. G. Teubneri, 1885), by Autolycus and Friedrich Otto Hultsch (page images at HathiTrust)
• Eisagōgē eis ta phainomena (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1898), by Geminus and Karl Manitius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• Geminoy Isagōgē ista phainomena = Gemîni ... Elementa astronomiæ Græcè & Latinè (Typis Christophori Lochneri & Iohannis Hofmanni, 1590), by Geminus and Edo Hilderich von Varel (page images at HathiTrust)
• Kleomēdous Kyklikēs theōrias meteōrōn biblia duo = Cleomedis de motu circulari corporum caelestium libri duo (In aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1891), by Cleomedes and Hermann Rudolf Ziegler (page images at HathiTrust)
• Gemini Elementa astronomiae (in aedibus B.G. Teubneri, 1898), by Geminus and C. L. Manitius (page images at HathiTrust; US access only)
• The Copernicus of Antiquity (Aristarchus of Samos), by Thomas Little Heath (Gutenberg ebook)

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