Aristarchus of Samos

British  

noun

1. 3rd century _bc , Greek astronomer who anticipated Copernicus in advancing the theory that the earth revolves around the sun

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Example Sentences

Aristarchus of Samos, who lived in the third century B.C., held that the earth revolves about the sun as a fixed centre, and rotates on its own axis.

From General History for Colleges and High Schools by Myers, Philip Van Ness

Aristarchus of Samos observed at Alexandria 280-264 B.C.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 7 "Arundel, Thomas" to "Athens" by Various

Aristarchus of Samos gave the right explanation of her phases.

From The Moon-Voyage by Verne, Jules

But Aristarchus of Samos, a mathematician of great powers, has left a different explanation in his teaching on this subject, as I shall now set forth.

From The Ten Books on Architecture by Vitruvius Pollio

Mystic: Such was the old idea of Philolaus, Tim�us, Ecphantes, Seleucus, Aristarchus of Samos, Archimedes and Eudoxus, which Copernicus has renewed in our time.

From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Stimson, Dorothy