Aristarchus of Samos

Aristarchus of Samos was the most radical.

Aristarchus of Samos, astronomer and mathematician, born in Pythagoreio.

Aristarchus of Samos proposes heliocentrism as an alternative to the Earth-centered universe.

Aristarchus of Samos, 1,700 years before Copernicus, put the sun at the center of the universe, but no one listened.

It is named after Aristarchus of Samos, the ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician.

This approach of setting limits on an unknown physical quantity was not new to Hipparchus (see Aristarchus of Samos.

The first person known to have proposed a heliocentric system, however, was Aristarchus of Samos (c. 270 BCE).

The Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos was the first known individual to propose a heliocentric model of the Universe.

Aristarchus of Samos is said to have done so in 280 BC, and Hipparchus also had an observation by Archimedes.

The Greek philosophers Aristarchus of Samos, Aristotle and Ptolemy proposed different cosmological theories.

In the 3rd century BC Aristarchus of Samos was the first to suggest a heliocentric system, although only fragmentary descriptions of his idea survive.

Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1913)

He supported Aristarchus of Samos' heliocentric theory where the Earth rotated around its own axis which in turn revolved around the Sun.

In the 3rd century BC, Aristarchus of Samos proposed a heliocentric system, according to which the Earth and planets revolved around the sun.

Aristarchus of Samos, Greek astronomer and mathematician (approximate date) (d. c. 230 BC)

The two were contemporaries of Aristarchus of Samos, but it is unclear whether there was any association between Timocharis and Aristarchus.

The following century Aristarchus of Samos used an eclipse cycle of Babylonian origin called the Saros cycle to determine the year length.

Aristarchus of Samos, the ancient Copernicus: a history of Greek astronomy to Aristarchus, Oxford, Clarendon.

This conception had gestated for millennia (Aristarchus of Samos had suggested it as early as 250 BC), but was widely accepted only by the end of the 17th century.

The only surviving planetary model from among the Chaldean astronomers is that of Seleucus of Seleucia (b. 190 BC), who supported Aristarchus of Samos' heliocentric model.

Heath translated works of Euclid of Alexandria, Apollonius of Perga, Aristarchus of Samos, and Archimedes of Syracuse into English.

(Around 250 BC, Aristarchus of Samos postulated a proto-heliocentric theory, which would not be reconsidered for nearly two millennia (Copernicus), as Aristotle's geocentric model continued to be favored.)

Aristarchus of Samos published work on how to determine the sizes and distances of the Sun and the Moon, and Eratosthenes used this work to figure the size of the Earth.

The notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun had been proposed as early as the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of Samos, but had received no support from most other ancient astronomers.

Other notable personalities include the philosopher Epicurus, who was of Samian birth and the astronomer Aristarchus of Samos, whom history credits with the first recorded heliocentric model of the solar system.