The Song of Urania
Episode 16: The Homocentric Spheres of Eudoxus
Apr 18, 2022 · 1 hr · Season 1 · Episode 16 · 51.4 MB
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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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