Word: aristarchus
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Mathematics and Science: Euclid, Nicomachus, Aristarchus, Apollonius, Ptolemy, Archimedes, Aristoxenus, Strabo, Leonardo, Copernicus, Galileo, Descartes, Kepler, Harvey, Gilbert, Newton, Leibnitz, Boyle...
...print, others have never been translated from the original Greek or Latin. To rescue their imperishable thoughts from oblivion and make them available to its students, St. John's has had to make its own translations, print its own copies of such thinkers as Nicomachus, Apollonius, Lucian, Gilbert, Aristarchus...
...Visible to the naked eyes of ancients were Mercury Venus, Mars, Jupiter and Saturn. Although Aristarchus of Samos in the 3rd century B.C. had theorized that the planets revolved about the Sun, not until Nicolaus Copernicus (1473-1543) did the World cease believing that they together with the Sun and Moon, both of which were considered planets, turned around the Earth...