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Aristarchus of Samos

Aristarchus of Samos
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Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.310–c.230 BC)

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  1. Archidāmus, an Athenian, 6, 7, 8, 44, 45, 47. Archilŏchus, 714-676, of Paros, lyric and iambic poet, 63, 199, 230, 282. Archīnus, 7. Archȳtas of Tarentum, mathematician and statesman, fl. 300 (see _Life of Marcellus_, c. 14), 14 _n._, 181. Argos, Argive, 85, 186. Aridaeus, 206. Aristarchus of Samos, astronomer and physicist (310-230), 98, 264, 269, 283. Aristarchus, critic, of Samothrace and Alexandria (fl. 156)…

    Plutarch, Selected Essays of Plutarch, Vol. II.

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  2. _Pythagoras_ was earlier than Anaxagoras, though this latter has been mentioned before him to avoid breaking the continuity of the Ionic School. His father’s name was Mnesarchus, and he was born at Samos about 570 B.C., though some accounts make him earlier. He is said by some writers to have been a pupil of Thales, by others of Anaximander, or of Pherecydes of Scyros.

    Marcus Tullius Cicero, The Academic Questions, Treatise De Finibus, and Tusculan Disputations, of M.T. Cicero, With a Sketch of the Greek Philosophers Mentioned by

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  3. It was thus, for example, that Aristarchus of Samos estimated the relative distance from the sun and from the moon to the earth, by making measurements on a triangle constructed as exactly as possible, so as to be similar to the right-angled triangle formed by the three bodies at the instant when the moon is in quadrature, and when an observation of the angle at the earth would consequently be sufficient to define…

    Auguste Comte, The philosophy of mathematics

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