aristarchus

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A male given name, of historical use only in English
a bright crater on the moon an ancient Greek grammarian remembered for his commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey (circa 217-145 BC)

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Aristarchus of Samos
born 310 BC died 230 BC Greek astronomer. His advanced ideas on the movement of the Earth (which he asserted revolved around the Sun) are known from Archimedes and Plutarch. His only surviving work is the short treatise "On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon"; though the values he obtained are inaccurate, he showed that the Sun and stars are at immense distances. A peak in the centre of a lunar crater named for him is the brightest formation on the Moon
aristarchus of samos
an ancient Greek astronomer who was one of the first to propose a heliocentric theory of the universe (circa 270 BC)