Aristarchus

Intriguingly, he worked out values for two universes - the conventional one with the Earth at the centre, and one based on a weird idea from someone called Aristarchus that had the Earth going around the Sun.

Archive 2010-03-01 Brian Clegg 2010

Intriguingly, he worked out values for two universes - the conventional one with the Earth at the centre, and one based on a weird idea from someone called Aristarchus that had the Earth going around the Sun.

The jar of sweets game goes large Brian Clegg 2010

Thus the Russian penal colony was officially titled Aristarchus Center, even though most lunar residents still called it by its older name: Lunagrad.

Empire Builders Bova, Ben 1993

One of the most remarkable of these is found in the _Oceanus Procellarum_, near the crater-mountain Aristarchus, which is famed for the intense brilliance of its central peak, whose reflective power is so great that it was once supposed to be aflame with volcanic fire.

Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries 1890

Others, such as Aristarchus, were spitted on their own critical signs of disapproval.

Adventures Among Books Andrew Lang 1878

Walker writes: "They imprisoned Galileo for his heretical ideas of heliocentric solar system, and rejected his science (by the way, The Greek thinker, Aristarchus, developed the first heliocentric theory in 270 BCE, not Copernicus as many Christians falsely believe)."

October 18th, 2009 m_francis 2009

Aristarchus of Samos, who first theorized that the sun was the center of the solar system and the earth revolved on its own axis, was resident in the city, as was the geographer and polymath Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who calculated the circumference of the earth with great accuracy.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Bay wreaths being a spoil to victors, back when grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace was a librarian in Alexandria.

“Recent exemplifications of false philology” « Motivated Grammar 2010

Aristarchus of Samos, who first theorized that the sun was the center of the solar system and the earth revolved on its own axis, was resident in the city, as was the geographer and polymath Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who calculated the circumference of the earth with great accuracy.

Alexander the Great Philip Freeman 2011

Universal shallowness wonders and applauds; and Aristarchus the Little, fired to dare fresh achievements, is certain of new weeds to wreathe with his deciduous bays.

2010 August « Motivated Grammar 2010