Extractions: Culture Geography History Life ... WorldVillage Aristarchus 310 BC - circa 230 BC ) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician , born in Samos Greece . He is the first recorded person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system , placing the Sun , not the Earth , at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the " Greek Copernicus "). His astronomical ideas were not well-received and were subordinated to those of Aristotle and Ptolemy , until they were successfully revived and developed by Copernicus nearly 2000 years later. See also: Aristarchus , a bright crater on the Moon , and asteroid 3999 Aristarchus , both named after the astronomer. Contents 1 Heliocentrism edit The only work of Aristarchus which has survived to the present time, On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon , is based on a geocentric worldview . We know through citations, however, that Aristarchus wrote another book in which he advanced an alternative hypothesis of the heliocentric model.
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Extractions: Many people's work was needed to prove that the Sun is a star. The first person we know of to suggest that the Sun is a star up close (or, conversely, that stars are Suns far away) was Anaxagoras, around 450 BC. It was again suggested by Aristarchus of Samos, around 220 BC, but this idea did not catch on. About 1800 years later, around AD 1590, Giordano Bruno suggested the same thing, and was burnt at the stake for it. Through the work of Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus during the 16th and 17th centuries the nature of the solar system and the Sun's place in it became clear, and finally in the 19th century the distances to stars and other things about them could be measured by various people. Only then was it proved that the Sun is a star. For most of human history, almost all people have thought that the Earth was in the center of a giant sphere (or ball, called the "celestial sphere") with the stars stuck to the inside of the sphere. The planets, Sun, and Moon were thought to move between the sphere of stars and the Earth, and to be different from both the Earth and the stars. Anaxagoras
Outline Of Cosmology And Astronomy To Aristarchus Source Thomas Heath, aristarchus of samos, the Ancient Copernicus, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1913. Reprinted by Dover, New York, 1981. Thales of Miletus (c. http://babbage.clarku.edu/~djoyce/ma105/astrocos.html
Extractions: Math 105 History of Mathematics, D Joyce. Spring, 1999 Source: Thomas Heath, Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus, Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1913. Reprinted by Dover, New York, 1981. Thales of Miletus (c. 630? - c 550? BC) Statesman, engineer, mathematician and astronomer, one of the "seven wise men." Cosmology: earth floated on water, a disk. Sun, stars, and planets fiery. Perhaps based on Egyptian and/or Babylonian cosmology. Said to have predicted a solar eclipse, but unlikely. Eudemus referred to two written works by Thales: On the Solstice and On the Equinox, since lost. Noted length of four seasons not all the same. Diogenes Laertius says Thales declared the apparent size of the sun and the moon to be 1/720 part of the circle described by it (i.e., 1/2 degree). Recommended sailing by Little Bear (Little Dipper) as the Phoenicians did. Anaximander of Miletus (Anasimandros) (c. 611 - c. 547 BC) Considered first Greek philosopher. Student of Thales. Cosmology: earth at center, a disk with depth 1/3 of breadth floating in air. Believed the stars to be fiery wheels emitting flames through vents, and eclipses occur when the vents are stopped up. Concluded the circle of the sun is 27 or 28 times the size of the earth, and that of the moon 18 or 19 times. Probably brought the vertical sundial (gnomon) to Greeks from Babylonians. Said to be first to draw a map of the inhabited earth. Anaximenes of Miletus (c. 585 - c. 528 BC. Stars on crystal sphere, but planets have their own movements. Sun, moon, stars made of fire. Said eclipses due to obscuring dark bodies.
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Extractions: ARISTARCHUS ARISTARCHUS of Samos was one of the principal astronomers of Alexandria, in the generation before Archimedes and Apollonius . One of his works, entitled Magnitudes and Distances , has come down to us. In this work a most remarkable attempt was made to calculate the distance of the earth from the sun in terms of the earth's distance from the moon. Aristarchus observed that when the moon was in quadrature i.e. Aristarchus sustained the Pythagorean view of the earth's motion, as we know from a letter of Archimedes to King Gelon, in which the following passage occurs: "You are aware that by most astronomers the universe is looked upon as a sphere, of which the radius reaches from the centre of the earth to the centre of the sun. This view was contested by Aristarchus of Samos, who brought forward hypotheses from which it would follow that the universe is many times as great as that which is now supposed. He imagined the fixed stars and the sun to be motionless. He regards the sphere of the fixed stars to be of such magnitude that the whole orbit of the earth compared with it is a mere point." Thus Aristarchus anticipated the most serious objection made then and long afterwards to the theory of the earth's annual revolution; namely, that the aspect of the heavens remained the same from every part of the orbit: that there was no annual parallax.
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Extractions: by Henry Smith Williams Terms Contents BOOK I Chapter I ... Chapter XI Part V Aristarchus of Samos, the Copernicus of Antiquity "First. The moon receives its light from the sun. "Second. The earth may be considered as a point and as the centre of the orbit of the moon. "Third. When the moon appears to us dichotomized it offers to our view a great circle [or actual meridian] of its circumference which divides the illuminated part from the dark part. "Fourth. When the moon appears dichotomized its distance from the sun is less than a quarter of the circumference [of its orbit] by a thirtieth part of that quarter." That is to say, in modern terminology, the moon at this time lacks three degrees (one thirtieth of ninety degrees) of being at right angles with the line of the sun as viewed from the earth; or, stated otherwise, the angular distance of the moon from the sun as viewed from the earth is at this time eighty-seven degreesthis being, as we have already observed, the fundamental measurement upon which so much depends. We may fairly suppose that some previous paper of Aristarchus's has detailed the measurement which here is taken for granted, yet which of course could depend solely on observation. "Fifth. The diameter of the shadow [cast by the earth at the point where the moon's orbit cuts that shadow when the moon is eclipsed] is double the diameter of the moon."
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Extractions: Greek Astronomy Early Geocentric Systems: Early Heliocentric System: Epicyclic Geocentric Systems: Fixed Stars The Sun The Moon The Planets Any successful description of the Solar System must explain all these facts. Geocentric = Earth-Centered Anaximander of Miletus (611-546 BC) Among the first Greek philosophers to suggest a geocentric system: Earth was a flat disk (cylinder) fixed and unmoving at the center.
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Extractions: Main Page '''Aristarchus''' ( 310 BC - circa 230 BC ) was a Greek astronomer and mathematician , born in Samos Greece . He is the first recorded person to propose a heliocentric model of the solar system , placing the Sun , not the Earth , at the center of the known universe (hence he is sometimes known as the " Greek Copernicus "). His astronomical ideas were not well-received and were subordinated to those of Aristotle and Ptolemy , until they were successfully revived and developed by Copernicus nearly 2000 years later. '''''See also:''' Aristarchus , a bright crater on the Moon , and asteroid 3999 Aristarchus , both named after the astronomer.'' The only work of Aristarchus which has survived to the present time, ''On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon '', is based on a geocentric worldview . We know through citations, however, that Aristarchus wrote another book in which he advanced an alternative hypothesis of the heliocentric model. Archimedes wrote: : "You King Gelon are aware the 'universe' is the name given by most astronomers to the sphere the centre of which is the center of the Earth, while its radius is equal to the straight line between the center of the Sun and the center of the Earth. This is the common account as you have heard from astronomers. But Aristarchus has brought out a book consisting of certain hypotheses, wherein it appears, as a consequence of the assumptions made, that the universe is many times greater than the 'universe' just mentioned. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, that the Earth revolves about the Sun on the circumference of a circle, the Sun lying in the middle of the orbit, and that the sphere of fixed
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Extractions: Web Price AUD$49.95 Description Two thousand years before Copernicus, Aristarchus of Samos believed the earth orbited the sun. This notion was, of course, dismissed as both heretical and silly, because Aristarchus was a mere geometer and Greek astronomers had observed that the earth was the center of the universe, with the sun and moon orbiting it. In this reprint of the 1913 ori Similar items can be found in these categories: Abbey's Bookshops 131 York Street Sydney NSW 2000 Australia
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Extractions: The Earth-centered Universe of Aristotle and Ptolemy held sway on Western thinking for almost 2000 years. Then, in the 16th century a new idea was proposed by the Polish astronomer Nicolai Copernicus In a book called On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Bodies (that was published as Copernicus lay on his deathbed), Copernicus proposed that the Sun, not the Earth, was the center of the Solar System. Such a model is called a heliocentric system . The ordering of the planets known to Copernicus in this new system is illustrated in the following figure, which we recognize as the modern ordering of those planets. The Copernican Universe In this new ordering the Earth is just another planet (the third outward from the Sun), and the Moon is in orbit around the Earth, not the Sun. The stars are distant objects that do not revolve around the Sun. Instead, the Earth is assumed to rotate once in 24 hours, causing the stars to appear to revolve around the Earth in the opposite direction. The Copernican system by banishing the idea that the Earth was the center of the Solar System, immediately led to a simple explanation of both the varying brightness of the planets and retrograde
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The Rigid Sky In Greek Philosophy 582507 BC) was born at Samos, and studied under Thales. aristarchus of samos (320-250 BC) proposed a heliocentric cosmology. See biography. http://www.sentex.net/~tcc/fgreek.html
Extractions: Report on the Firmament The worship of Zeus in the ancient world involved a cosmology that was built on the assumption of a stationary earth. Many arguments were available that appeared to support this idea; clouds would be left behind, it was reasoned, if the earth rotated. Observations showed that a stone or an arrow shot straight up into the air fell back down to the same place, and was not deflected towards the west. The ancients noted that after sunset, the stars appeared in the formerly bright blue sky, and they observed the regular daily movement of the stars, which seem to rotate about a point in the sky above the north pole each night. To keep the stars in their relative positions, they reasoned a rigid spherical shell was required, centered on the earth's center, in which all the fixed stars were embedded. The rigidity of the heavens was regarded as an amazing discovery, which seemed to account for many observations. The concept was the basis for the worship of the Olympian Zeus in the ancient world. Zeus was the rigid heaven of the ancient world, which shone bright blue in the day, and held up all the stars, which were thought to be embedded like nails on its inside surface. The sky was the focus of Greek religion. Zeus was chief of the Olympic deities, and was called "the father of gods and men" by Homer. Herodotus says Homer gave the
