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          Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer.!

          Aristarchus was an astronomer and ancient Greek mathematician.

        1. Aristarchus was an astronomer and ancient Greek mathematician.
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        3. Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer.
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          Born
          about 310 BC
          Samos, Greece
          Died
          about 230 BC
          Greece
          Summary
          Aristarchus was a Greek mathematician and astronomer who is celebrated as the exponent of a Sun-centred universe and for his pioneering attempt to determine the sizes and distances of the Sun and Moon.

          Biography

          Aristarchus of Samos does not seem to have had the attention from historians of mathematics which he deserved until recent times.

          For example Heath begins Volume II of his history of Greek mathematics with the words [5]:-

          Historians of mathematics have, as a rule, given too little attention to Aristarchus of Samos. The reason is no doubt that he was an astronomer, and therefore it might be supposed that his work would have no sufficient interest for the mathematician.

          The Greeks knew better; they called him 'Aristarchus the mathematician'.

          However the fact that he was known as an astronomer rather than a mathematician is rather countered by Neugebauer's claim that his wor