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- Aristarchus of SamosAristarchus of SamosAristarchus, or more correctly Aristarchos , was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in Greece. He presented the first known heliocentric model of the solar system, placing the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the known universe...
(circa 310–230 BC), Greek astronomer and mathematician - Aristarchus of SamothraceAristarchus of SamothraceAristarchus of Samothrace was a grammarian noted as the most influential of all scholars of Homeric poetry. He was the librarian of the library of Alexandria and seems to have succeeded his teacher Aristophanes of Byzantium in that role.He established the most historically important critical...
(circa 220–143 BC), Greek grammarian - Aristarchus of TegeaAristarchus of TegeaAristarchus or Aristarch of Tegea was a contemporary of Sophocles and Euripides, who lived to be a centenarian, to compose seventy pieces and to win two tragic victories. Only the titles of three of his plays with a single line of the text, have come down to us, though Ennius freely borrowed from...
(5th century BC), Greek writer - Aristarchus of ThessalonicaAristarchus of ThessalonicaAristarchus or Aristarch, "a Greek Macedonian of Thessalonica" , was an early Christian mentioned in a few passages of the New Testament. He accompanied Saint Paul on his third missionary journey. Along with Gaius, another Macedonian, Aristarchus was seized by the mob at Ephesus and taken into...
(1st century CE), Eastern saint