Aristarchus of Samos (310-230 BC) made the earliest surviving measurements of the distance between objects in space.

Books Received Published: 17 July 1913 Aristarchus of Samos: The Ancient Copernicus J. L. E. D. Nature 91, 499–500 (1913) Cite this article ...

The first documented person to measure the distance from the Earth to the sun was the Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos, who lived between 310 B.C. to 230 B.C.

The book of Aristarchus of Samos, On the distances and sizes of the sun and moon, is one of the few pre-Ptolemaic astronomical works that have come down to us in complete or nearly complete form. The ...

1. The planets orbit the Sun A few centuries later, there had been a lot of progress. Aristarchus of Samos (310BC to 230BC) argued that the Sun was the “central fire” of the cosmos and he placed all ...

Samos is linked with great personalities of the ancient world, such as the philosopher and mathematician Pythagoras, the philosopher Epicurus, who was of Samian birth, and Aristarchus the Samian, who ...

Celestial Mechanics: The Early Years Early Greeks had a surprisingly sophisticated view of our Solar System Aristarchus of Samos (c. 270 B.C.): Advocated the view that the Earth revolved around the ...

In its earliest form it was known as celestial mechanics and the study of the heavens. Greek philosophers Aristarchus of Samos, Aristotle and Ptolemy proposed different cosmological theories.