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Aristarchus (310?–250? BC)

Greek astronomer who was the first to maintain that the Earth rotates and revolves around the Sun.
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Boonta23
03/29/2001

Aristarchus (310?–250? BC) 5

Maybe he guessed, or maybe he tried proving that Ptolemy's thought was wrong, but the important thing is that he was right. Aristarchus said the sun was in the center of the solar system. It would be 1800 years before he was proved right.

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