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    Aristarchus of Samos (/ˌærəˈstɑːrkəs/; Greek: Ἀρίσταρχος ὁ Σάμιος, Aristarkhos ho Samios; c. 310 – c. 230 BC) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician...
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    Samos (/ˈseɪmɒs/, also US: /ˈsæmoʊs, ˈsɑːmɔːs/; Greek: Σάμος, romanized: Sámos) is a Greek island in the eastern Aegean Sea, south of Chios, north of...
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    we know of the physical construction of the moon [sic]." Aristarchus is named after the Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos. Like many of the craters...
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    heliocentric system was Aristarchus of Samos (c. 270 BC). Like his contemporary Eratosthenes, Aristarchus calculated the size of the Earth and measured...
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    extant work written by Aristarchus of Samos, an ancient Greek astronomer who lived circa 310–230 BCE. This work calculates the sizes of the Sun and Moon, as...
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  • BC Aristarchus of Samos (c. 310–230 BC), Greek astronomer and mathematician Aristarchus of Samothrace (c. 220–143 BC), Greek grammarian Aristarchus, one...
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    points, the sphere of the fixed stars should implicitly be farther than previously thought. Around 280 BCE, Aristarchus of Samos offered the first definite...
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    Nicolaus Copernicus (category Canons of Warmia)
    Thomas (1913). Aristarchus of Samos, the ancient Copernicus; a history of Greek astronomy to Aristarchus, together with Aristarchus's Treatise on the...
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    course. Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos (c. 310 – c. 230 BCE) theorized Earth's rotation around its own axis and the orbit of Earth around the Sun in...
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    centuries by the Babylonians and by Meton of Athens (fifth century BC), Timocharis, Aristyllus, Aristarchus of Samos, and Eratosthenes, among others. He developed...
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