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He presented the first known model that placed the sun at the center of the known universe with the earth revolving around it. This was in the 3rd century.
Yes, Aristarchus of Samos discovered that the earth revolves around the sun.
Both Nicolaus Copernicus and Galileo Galilei said that the Earth revolved around the Sun. Many from their time believed the Sun revolved around the Earth.
Aristarchus of Samos
Aristarchus of Samoa
Ptolemy placed the earth as stationary at the center of the universe. Aristarchus placed the sun at the center with earth rotating around it.
A Greek mathematician who believed (uncommonly) that the Earth was in orbit around the Sun.
The notion that the Earth revolves around the Sun had been proposed as early as the 3rd century BC by Aristarchus of Samos, but Aristarchus's heliocentrism attracted little attention until Copernicus revived and elaborated it.
the Earth revolves around the Sun c:
Aristarchus was the first person we know of to come up with that idea.
aristarchus contribute knowledge about shape and size of earth,and prove that the earth is not the center of the solar system because its the sun