Aristarchus of Samos

Aristarchus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

A Samian mathematician and astronomer at Alexandria, who flourished between B.C. 280 and 264....

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Aristarchus of Samos in Wikipedia

Aristarchus (Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος, Arístarchos; 310 BC – ca. 230 BC) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in Greece. He presented the first known heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe. He was influenced by the Pythagorean Philolaus of Croton, but, i...

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