Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer. He was born in 310BC and died in 230BC. Raised in Ionia, Aristarchus is most famous for his hypothesis that the Sun was the center of the un...
The stars and the sun don’t move, and that the earth revolves about the sun and that the path of the orbit is circular. Aristarchus of Samos
The stars and the sun don’t move, and that the earth revolves about the sun and that the path of the orbit is circular.
Earth was spinning on its own axis, taking one day to complete one revolution. Aristarchus of Samos
Earth was spinning on its own axis, taking one day to complete one revolution.
It was the ancient opinion of not a few in the earliest ages of philosophy, That the fixed stars stood immovable in the highest parts of the world; Aristarchus of Samos
It was the ancient opinion of not a few in the earliest ages of philosophy, That the fixed stars stood immovable in the highest parts of the world;
That the earth is in the relation of a point and centre to the sphere in which the moon moves. Aristarchus of Samos
That the earth is in the relation of a point and centre to the sphere in which the moon moves.
The diameter of the sun is greater than 18 times, but less than 20 times, the diameter of the moon. Aristarchus of Samos
The diameter of the sun is greater than 18 times, but less than 20 times, the diameter of the moon.
That the moon receives light from the sun. Aristarchus of Samos
That the moon receives light from the sun.
