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Aristarchus of Samos (310 BCE – ca. 230 BCE) of Samos... ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who... first... placed the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it.... His astronomical ideas were often rejected in favor of the geocentric theories of Aristotle and Ptolemy. | Abridged from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos Aristarchus Of Samos, Classical Greece, Natural Philosophy, Simple Minds, History Timeline, Roman History, Physicists, History Of Science, Samos

Aristarchus of Samos (310 BCE – ca. 230 BCE) of Samos... ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who... first... placed the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it.... His astronomical ideas were often rejected in favor of the geocentric theories of Aristotle and Ptolemy. | Abridged from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aristarchus_of_Samos

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It's funny, but not all the scientists we talk about on this website are actually famous. Some of them, like Aristarchus, deserve to be... but they're not. If you're looking for an unsung hero of science, you could do worse than Aristarchus of Samos, or Aristarchus the Mathematician as some people called him. Today, a

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