So it remained for perhaps 1,000 years. Aristarchus of Samos measured the size and distance of the Moon and Sun. He also placed the Earth in orbit around the sun. If Earth orbits the sun, then there should be an apparent shift in position of the stars relative to the sun and this had not been observed. Eratosthenes of Cyrene measured the circumference of the Earth by comparing shadows on the first day of Summer.
Celestial devices appear on coins from the classical period forward.
There are many such examples of stars, astrogali, solar disks, etc. Klazomenae honored Anaxagoras by putting him on their coins. All show an anonymous young man on the obverse. On the reverse, a man is seated on globe and he holds another globe in his hand. On the reverse, a man stands facing right, naked to the waist, holding a globe.