@increpare Aristotle is the man to follow: http://perseus.mpiwg-berlin.mpg.de/GreekScience/Students/Tom/AristotleAstro.html … He believed all celestial bodies to be made of aether.
@dgrey0 was trying to find a reference for the "greeks thought the moon was light" thing but couldn't find it.
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@increpare Later Greeks concerned themselves more with straight observation, but Aristotlean astronomy stuck around till Galileo.
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