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1 Thomas Heath, in Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus (Oxford, The Clarendon Press, 1913), p. 97.
2 J. A. Philip, Pythagoras and Early Pythagoreanism (Toronto, Canada: University of Toronto Press, 1966),
Walter Burkert, Lore and Science in Ancient Pythagoreanism, translated by Edwin L. Minar, Jr. (Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1972).
Giorgio de Santillana, Reflections on Men and Ideas (Cambridge, Mass., MIT Press), pp. 190-201,
T. D. C. Kuch, "Metrodorus of Chios," The Worm Runner’s Digest, 8, No. 2 (Nov. 1966), p. 89.
3 Stillman Drake, Discoveries and Opinions of Galileo (Garden City, New York: Doubleday Anchor Books, 1957), pp. 175-216.
4 Thomas Heath, op. cit., Chapter XII, especially pages 94-100;
Morris R. Cohen and I. E. Drabkin, A Source Book in Greek Science (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press, 1966), especially pp. 93-97;
J. A. Philip, op. cit., Chapter 7;
D. R. Dicks, Early Greek Astronomy to Aristotle (Ithaca, New York: Cornell University Press, 1970), Chapter IV;
Walter Burkert, op. cit., Section IV. We have centered our attention on Pythagoras, rather than on Aristarchus (also of Samos) for obvious reasons.
5 D. R. Dicks, op. cit., p. 66.
Morris R. Cohen and I. E. Drabkin, op. cit., p. 96.
6 D. R. Dicks, op. cit., p. 74.
Walter Burkert, op. cit., p. 346,
Heraclides’ claim that the Pythagoreans believed that "the stars are a kind of earth," as Burkert puts it. Note also Moses 1:33-35.
7 Arthur Koestler, The Sleepwalkers (New York: Grosset & Dunlap, 1959 and 1963), pages 148-149 for Copernicus and pages 26-50 for Pythagoras.
J. A. Philip, op. cit., chapters 3 and 11;
Walter Burkert, op. cit., Section II, Chapter 2.
8 In The Pearl of Great Price (Salt Lake City: The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, 1952).
R. Grant Athay, "Astrophysics and the Gospel," The New Era, 2 (September, 1972), 14-19.
9 Giorgio de Santillana, The Origins of Scientific Thought (New York: Mentor Books, 1961), p. 11;
Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, Hamlet’ s Mill (Boston: Gambit, Inc., 1969), P. 3.
10 Giorgio de Santillana, op. cit., Prologue; Morris R. Cohen and I. E. Drabkin, op. cit., pp. 90-142;
Giorgio de Santillana and Hertha von Dechend, op. cit., in general.
11 Edward T. Jones, "The Theology of Thomas Dick and its Possible Relationship to that of Joseph Smith," MA thesis, College of Religious Instruction, Brigham Young University, 1969.
12 Virginia Trimble and Frederick Reines, "The Solar Neutrino Problem -A Progress (?) Report," Reviews of Modern Physics, 45 (January, 1973), 1-5.
14 Lawrence S. Lerner and Edward A. Gosselin, "Giordano Bruno," Scientific American, 228, No. 4 (April, 1973), especially p. 91;
Frances A. Yates, Giordano Bruno and the Hermetic Tradition (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1964), especially Chapters I and XXI.
Isaac Newton, Mathematical Principles of Natural Philosophy and His System of the World, Translated by Andrew Motte, translation revised by Florian Cajori, (Berkeley and Los Angeles: University of California Press, 1934, 1962, 1966), Vol. II, The System of the World, PP. 549-550.
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