Each day a different image or photograph of our fascinating universe is featured, along with a brief explanation written by a professional astronomer. Here lived one of the greatest thinkers in human history. Aristarchus lived on the Greek island of Samos, a small island in the center of the above picture that can be identified with a good map . Aristarchus used clear logic to estimate the size of the Earth, the size and distance to our Moon , the size and distance to our Sun, then he even deduced that the points of light we see at night are not dots painted on some celestial sphere but stars like our Sun at enormous distances. Aristarchus' discoveries remained truly unbelievable to the people of his time but stand today as pillars of deductive reasoning.
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