
Building on \textit{Carl A. Huffman}'s understanding of Philolaus of Croton's cosmology as ``the most impressive example of Presocratic speculative astronomy'' [Philolaus of Croton: Pythagorean and Presocratic. New York: Cambridge University Press (1993), p. 241], the author presents a possible model for Philolaus's cosmological system, with a central fire in the center, the counter-Earth, the Earth, the Moon, the Sun, the five planets on circular orbits around the central fire, and a circle of ``fixed'' stars, which is motionless. The central question that the author aims to explain is the need for a counter-Earth, which is located on an orbit closer to the central fire than the Earth, and thus invisible from positions on Earth ``facing outward''. Its function is to explain the occurrence (otherwise unexplainable) of crepuscular lunar eclipses (occurring at dawn or dusk).
History of Greek and Roman mathematics, History of astronomy and astrophysics
History of Greek and Roman mathematics, History of astronomy and astrophysics
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