Aristarchus of samos biography


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Aristarchus of Samos

Aristarchus (310 BC – about 230 BC), was an ancient Greekastronomer and mathematician. His is the first known model that put the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it (see Solar system).

Aristarchus was influenced by Philolaus of Croton, but he identified the "central fire" with the Sun, and put the other planets in their correct order of distance around the Sun.[1] His astronomical ideas were often rejected in favour of the geocentric theories of Aristotle and Ptolemy.

Aristarchus of samos biography

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    His name is Ἀρίσταρχος in Greek letters, which transliterates to Aristarchos. He was born on the island of Samos, in the eastern Aegean Sea.

    Heliocentrism

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    Heliocentrism is the idea of the Sun at the centre.

    Though the original text has been lost, a reference in Archimedes' book The Sand Reckoner describes another work by Aristarchus in which he advanced the he