'''Aristarchus''' (310-230 BC) was a [[Greece|Greek]] [[astronomy|astronomer]] who realized that the [[sun]] was larger than the [[earth]]. He was reported by [[Archimedes]] to have taught that the earth orbited a motionless sun<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref>, and that the sun is at the center of the [[universe]]. | '''Aristarchus''' (310-230 BC) was a [[Greece|Greek]] [[astronomy|astronomer]] who realized that the [[sun]] was larger than the [[earth]]. He was reported by [[Archimedes]] to have taught that the earth orbited a motionless sun<ref>The New American Desk Encyclopedia, Penguin Group, 1989</ref>, and that the sun is at the center of the [[universe]]. |