1. Aristarchus aristarchus of samos does not seem to have had the attention from aristarchus of samos is a littleknown but often cited precursor of Copernicus. http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Mathematicians/Aristarchus.html

Aristarchus of Samos Born: about 310 BC in Greece Died: about 230 BC in Greece Click the picture above to see a larger version Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Version for printing Aristarchus of Samos does not seem to have had the attention from historians of mathematics which he deserved until recent times. For example Heath begins Volume II of his history of Greek mathematics with the words [5]:- Historians of mathematics have, as a rule, given too little attention to Aristarchus of Samos. The reason is no doubt that he was an astronomer, and therefore it might be supposed that his work would have no sufficient interest for the mathematician. The Greeks knew better; they called him 'Aristarchus the mathematician'. However the fact that he was known as an astronomer rather than a mathematician is rather countered by Neugebauer 's claim that his work [6]:- ... is a purely mathematical exercise which has ... little to do with practical astronomy ... Zhitomirskii, in [14], states:-

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3. References For Aristarchus TL Heath, aristarchus of samos. The ancient Copernicus Reprint of the 1913 original (New York, 1981). TL Heath, A history of Greek mathematics I, http://www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk/~history/Printref/Aristarchus.html

References for Aristarchus Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990). Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [available on the Web] Books: T L Heath, Aristarchus of Samos (Oxford, 1913). T L Heath, Aristarchus of Samos. The ancient Copernicus : Reprint of the 1913 original (New York, 1981). T L Heath, A history of Greek mathematics I, II (Oxford, 1931). O Neugebauer, A History of Ancient Mathematical Astronomy (3 Vols.) (Berlin-Heidelberg-New York, 1975). Articles: A C Bowen and B R Goldstein, Aristarchus, Thales, and Heraclitus on solar eclipses : an astronomical commentary on P Oxy 53.3710 cols. 2.33-3.19, Physis Riv. Internaz. Storia Sci. (N.S.) M Gabriel, Les theories heliocentriques dans l'antiquite grecque, Ciel et terre : bulletin de la Societe belge d'astronomie et revue populaire d'astronomie, de meteorologie et de physique du globe O Gingerich, Did Copernicus owe a debt to Aristarchus?, J. Hist. Astronom. M Milankovitch, Aristarchos und Apollonios. Das heliozentrische und das geozentrische Weltsystem des klassischen Altertums, Acad. Serbe Sci. Publ. Inst. Math.

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5. Aristarchus aristarchus of samos. by Kristen Riley. Look at the comments on this paper. aristarchus of samos, often referred to as the Copernicus of antiquity, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/GreekScience/Students/Kristen/Aristarchus.html

Please note: These papers were prepared for the Greek Science course taught at Tufts University by Prof. Gregory Crane in the spring of 1995. The Perseus Project does not and has not edited these student papers. We assume no responsibility over the content of these papers: we present them as is as a part of the course, not as documents in the Perseus Digital Library . We do not have contact information for the authors. Please keep that in mind while reading these papers. ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS by Kristen Riley Look at the comments on this paper. Aristarchus of Samos , often referred to as the Copernicus of antiquity, laid the foundation for much scientific examination of the heavens. According to his contemporary, Archimedes , Aristarchus was the first to propose not only a heliocentric universe, but one larger than any of the geocentric universes proposed by his predecessors. Copernicus himself originally gave credit to Aristarchus in his own heliocentric treatise, De revolutionibus caelestibus , where he had written, "Philolaus believed in the mobility of the earth, and some even say that Aristarchus of Samos was of that opinion." Interestingly, this passage was crossed out shortly before publication, maybe because Copernicus decided his treatise would stand on its own merit. Plutarch in his De facie in orbe lunae gives reference not only to Aristarchus's theory, but to the way it was received by contemporaries. The general opinion of the time appeared to be that of

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Branch of Science Astronomers Branch of Science Philosophers ... Greek Aristarchus of Samos (ca. 310-ca. 230 BC) Greek philosopher who theorized the radical view that Earth and planets revolve around the Sun This model was too revolutionary to be accepted by his contemporaries who debunked the theory because it conflicted with geocentric religious principles, as well as Aristotle's principle that all objects move toward the center of the Earth Aristarchus' model also predicted stellar parallax and seemed to imply that falling bodies would be swept westward, neither of which were observed. Aristarchus explained the lack of observed parallax by postulating that the stars were infinitely far away. Aristarchus also applied modern geometric methods to measuring the size of celestial bodies. From a lunar eclipse he concluded that the radius of the Moon was 0.5 times the radius of the Earth (actually 0.28 times). He measured the Moon's Earth Moon distance to be 114.6 Earth radii (actually 60.4). By noticing that the Sun and Moon have equal angular diameters during a solar eclipse he calculated that the distance to the Sun was 19.1 times the distance to the

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9. Aristarchus Of Samos See Heath, aristarchus of samos, (Oxford University Press, 1913) p. 302. Aetius (ii.24.8) Dox. Graec. p. 355.19 Bekker. See Heath, aristarchus of samos, p. http://www.varchive.org/ce/orbit/arisam.htm

Aristarchus The first of the Greek philosphers and mathematicians to unravel the celestial plan and announce the discovery was Aristarchus of the isle of Samos. Others before him assumed that the Earth is a sphere and that it moves, but he was the first to formulate plainly the heliocentric theory, the scheme which has the Sun in the center. Aristarchus lived from about the year 310 before the present era to about 230, and among the geometers he succeeded Euclid and preceded Archimedes. In -288 or -287 he followed Theophrastus as the head of the Peripatetic School established by Aristotle. Whatever his scientific argument may have been, he accused Aristarchus of an act of impiety. Plutarch wrote in his book Of the Face in the Disc of the Moon (De facie in orbe lunae) We do not know whether there was any actual court action and verdict; however, we know that a verdict of judges, even if unanimous, could not make the Sun a satellite of the Earth. Not even a scientific tribunal can do this, not even if it is presided over by Archimedes and the most illustrious men of the generation sit as judges. Aristarchus had no followers in his generation, nor in the next generation. About a century after Aristarchus, Seleucus, a Chaldean of Seleucia on the Tigris, who lived and wrote about the year 150 before the present era, adopted the teaching of Aristarchus.

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