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Aristarchus
By Vickie Chao |
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1 In history, we all have heard that a Polish astronomer named Copernicus (1473 - 1543) proposed the idea that the Earth rotates and revolves around the sun. That groundbreaking heliocentric (sun-centered) theory became one of the most important scientific hypotheses ever made. But, surprisingly, it was nothing new! More than 1,700 years earlier, a Greek astronomer named Aristarchus (310 B.C. - 230 B.C.) made the same claim. So he was, in fact, the first person to correctly state what we know is true today.| 1. At the moment that we can only see half of the moon (as it appears to us in its phase of first or last quarter), its angular distance from the sun is 87 degrees. 2. The diameter of the sun is 18-20 times the diameter of the moon. 3. Likewise, the distance of the sun from the Earth is 18-20 times the distance of the moon from the Earth. |
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