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Episode 16: The Homocentric Spheres of Eudoxus

Episode 16: The Homocentric Spheres of Eudoxus

Update: 2022-04-18
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In working on the problem of doubling the cube, Plato's friend Archytas devised an ingenious solution that involved a three dimensional curve determined by the intersection of a torus with a cylinder. Archytas's student Eudoxus then seems to have been inspired by this solution to develop the first serious model of planetary motions in ancient Greece, his theory of homocentric spheres.

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Episode 16: The Homocentric Spheres of Eudoxus

Episode 16: The Homocentric Spheres of Eudoxus

Joe Antognini