When asked who was the first to propose the heliocentric theory—that is, the one in which the Sun is the center of the universe and the planets revolve around it—the usual answer is Copernicus.

Aristarchus of Samos, the ancient Copernicus; a history of Greek astonomy to Aristarchus, together with Aristarchus's Treatise on the sizes and distances of the sun and moon, a new Greek text with ...

There is a saying from an unknown author that reads, “Many great ideas have been lost because the people who had them, couldn’t handle being laughed at.”More than 2,200 years ago, Greek astronomer and ...

Time for another lesson in the ABCs of Success. Think about how you can use the definitions to define, refine and achieve your goals. Aristarchus of Samos (310-250BC) – Greek astronomer who believed ...

Copernicus was a great scientist and should be commemorated, though Aristarchus of Samos came up with the heliocentric theory 17 centuries earlier. But it seems perverse to name element 112 after ...