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AchievementAristarchus of Samos brought out a book consisting of some hypotheses, in which the premises lead to the result that the universe is many times greater than that now so called. His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the sun remain unmoved, that the earth revolves around the sun in the circumference of a circle, the sun lying in the middle of the orbit …
“The Sand Reckoner,” p. 520, the earliest surviving formulation of the Copernican hypothesis which removes man from the center of the universe
– the earliest surviving formulation of the Copernican hypothesis which removes man from the center of the universe
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