Sosigenes the Peripatetic

Sosigenes the Peripatetics was an Aristotelian philosopher ( Aristotelianism ) of the 2nd century AD, is mentioned in connection with the " saving the phenomena ", ie how, ultimately, could be attributed to the combination ideal, uniform circular motion around a center of the complex motions of the heavenly bodies, particularly the sun, moon and planets. On September 4, 164 AD He is said to have observed an annular eclipse of the sun and closed the difference to a total solar eclipse that the apparent size of the sun or moon is changing and thus they do not revolve around a common center (the earth) could but that these bodies would have their own centers. Thus he became an initiator of Nicolaus Copernicus in the preparation of his heliocentric system. One of his pupils was Alexander of Aphrodisias.

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