Aristarchos of Samos (circa 3rd century BC)

The first proposer of the heliocentric solar system. Pretty much all that is known about him is detailed in the article by Wall:

Wall, B. E. 1975, ``Anatomy of a Precursor: The Historiography of Aristarchos of Samos'' in Studies in History and Philosophy of Science 6, 201 (Wa).

Aristarchos should really have explained his ideas in a book and made them an unignorable hypothesis. But he didn't do this and so remains the dark star of Greek science.

Sites

1. Ptolemy The University of St. Andrews Biographies of Mathematicians and Astronomers.

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1. Aristarchos of Samos (3rd century BC).

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