Aristarcho

Aristarcho (Ἀρίσταρχος in greco antique, Aristarchus in latino) esseva un astronomo e mathematico grec, nascite in Samos, Grecia. Ille era, secundo Archimedes, le prime persona qui proponeva le modello heliocentric del Systema solar, collocante le Sol, e non le Terra, in le centro del universo cognoscite. Ille scribeva un tractato re le distantias del sol e del luna.The New Century Classical Handbook; Catherine Avery, redactor; Appleton-Century-Crofts, New York, 1962, p. 156: "Aristarchus of Samos ... Greek astronomer and mathematician ... According to Archimedes, he was the first to maintain the heliocentric theory of the universe ... In his only extant treatise, On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon, he gave a scientific method to make these measurements."

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