Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Jun 2002
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002jahh....5...89t&link_type=abstract
Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage (ISSN 1440-2807), Vol. 5, No. 1, p. 89-98 (2002).
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Phytagoreans, Aristarchos The Samian, Geocentric System, Heliocentric System, Pythagoreans, Geocentric System, Heliocentric System
Scientific paper
Some ancient Greek philosophers and thinkers questioned the geocentric system and proposed instead a heliocentric system. The main proponents of this view - which was seen as heretical at the time - are believed to have been the Pythagoreans Philolaos, Heraclides, Hicetas, and Ecphantos, but mainly Aristarchos of Samos, who placed the Sun in the position of the "central fire" of the Pythagoreans. The geocentric system, reworked by Claudius Ptolemaeus (Ptolemy), was the dominant one for centuries, and it was only during the sixteenth century that the Polish monk-astronomer, Copernicus, revisited the ancient Greek heliocentric views and became the new champion of the theory that we all accept today.
Danezis Emanouel
Kalyva E.-M.
Manimanis Vassilios N.
Theodossiou Efstratios
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