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Category:	Ancient Science
Name:	Aristarchus of Samos
Birth Year:	c. 310 BCE
Death Year:	230 BCE
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Biography, Lectures, and Research Links:	Biography Blog Aristarchus of Samos! SEARCH NOW: by title by author Aristarchus was born on the island of Samos and died in Alexandria. One treatise, On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon survives. Based upon his measurement and calculation of the size of the sun, Aristarchus advanced a heliocentric hypothesis 17 centuries before Copernicus. Copernicus acknowledges this debt to Aristarchus in the early drafts of his On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres but the reference does not appear in the published edition. Aristarchus argued that the lack of observed parallax in the fixed stars could be explained, within the heliocentric model, by assuming that the distance to the fixed stars was much larger than assumed. The Great Books: Aristarchus of Samos Please browse our Amazon list of titles about Aristarchus of Samos. For rare and hard to find titles we recommend our Alibris list of titles about Aristarchus of Samos. Offer Comments, Questions or Suggestions! This database is maintained by Malaspina Great Books.
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