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- adjective Of or relating to
Aristarch . - adjective Severely
critical .
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The first man, seemingly, to hark back to the Aristarchian conception in the new scientific era that was now dawning was the noted cardinal, Nikolaus of Cusa, who lived in the first half of the fifteenth century, and was distinguished as a philosophical writer and mathematician.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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Hipparchus, it will be recalled, rejected the Aristarchian conception of the universe just as Tycho rejected the conception of Copernicus.
A History of Science: in Five Volumes. Volume II: The Beginnings of Modern Science 1904
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