Aristarchus of Samos
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Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the universe, placing the Sun at the center and the Earth in motion around it.
All labels observed (4)
| Label | Occurrences |
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| Aristarchus of Samos canonical | 6 |
| Aristarchus | 1 |
| Aristarchus of Samos (late Classical / early Hellenistic) | 1 |
| astronomer Aristarchus of Samos | 1 |
How this entity was disambiguated
This entity first appeared as the object of triple T1015379 — resolving that mention is where its identity was fixed. The disambiguator weighed these candidate entities and picked the highlighted one (or “None”, minting a new entity). This is how homonymy is resolved: the same surface form can point to different entities.
Target entity: Aristarchus of Samos Context triple: [Nicolaus Copernicus, influencedBy, Aristarchus of Samos]
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Hipparchus of Athens
Hipparchus of Athens was a 6th-century BCE Athenian tyrant of the Peisistratid family, known as a patron of the arts and for his assassination, which became a celebrated event in Athenian democratic lore.
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Hipparchus
Hipparchus was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician renowned for founding trigonometry and creating one of the first comprehensive models of the motions of the Sun and Moon.
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Claudius Ptolemaeus
Claudius Ptolemaeus, commonly known as Ptolemy, was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, and geographer whose geocentric model of the universe and influential works like the Almagest shaped scientific thought for over a millennium.
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Posidonius of Apamea
Posidonius of Apamea was a prominent Hellenistic philosopher, polymath, and influential later Stoic thinker whose work bridged Stoicism with contemporary science, history, and geography.
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Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus was an early Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer often regarded as the founder of Western philosophy and the first to seek natural explanations for phenomena.
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- G. Unsure - the case is ambiguous/there is not enough information to decide.
Target entity: Aristarchus of Samos Target entity description: Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer who proposed a heliocentric model of the universe, placing the Sun at the center and the Earth in motion around it.
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Hipparchus of Athens
Hipparchus of Athens was a 6th-century BCE Athenian tyrant of the Peisistratid family, known as a patron of the arts and for his assassination, which became a celebrated event in Athenian democratic lore.
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Hipparchus
Hipparchus was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician renowned for founding trigonometry and creating one of the first comprehensive models of the motions of the Sun and Moon.
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Claudius Ptolemaeus
Claudius Ptolemaeus, commonly known as Ptolemy, was a Greco-Roman mathematician, astronomer, and geographer whose geocentric model of the universe and influential works like the Almagest shaped scientific thought for over a millennium.
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Posidonius of Apamea
Posidonius of Apamea was a prominent Hellenistic philosopher, polymath, and influential later Stoic thinker whose work bridged Stoicism with contemporary science, history, and geography.
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Thales of Miletus
Thales of Miletus was an early Greek philosopher, mathematician, and astronomer often regarded as the founder of Western philosophy and the first to seek natural explanations for phenomena.
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Statements (49)
| Predicate | Object |
|---|---|
| instanceOf |
Hellenistic scientist
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ancient Greek astronomer ⓘ human ⓘ mathematician ⓘ |
| accusedOf | impiety for moving the Earth ⓘ |
| approximateSunMoonDistanceRatio | about 18–20 times (underestimate) ⓘ |
| approximateSunMoonSizeRatio | about 6–7 times (underestimate) ⓘ |
| cataloguedIn | ancient Greek biographical traditions ⓘ |
| citizenship |
Greek Antiquity
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surface form:
Ancient Greece
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| continentOfBirth | Europe ⓘ |
| criticizedBy | Cleanthes of Assos ⓘ |
| dateOfBirth | circa 310 BCE ⓘ |
| dateOfDeath | circa 230 BCE ⓘ |
| era | Hellenistic period ⓘ |
| estimated |
Sun larger than the Moon
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Sun much larger than Earth ⓘ |
| ethnicGroup | Greek ⓘ |
| fieldOfWork |
astronomy
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cosmology ⓘ mathematics ⓘ |
| floruit | 3rd century BCE ⓘ |
| givenName |
Aristarchus of Samos
self-linksurface differs
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surface form:
Aristarchus
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| historicalReputation | precursor of the Copernican revolution ⓘ |
| influenced |
Copernican system
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surface form:
Copernican heliocentrism
Nicolaus Copernicus ⓘ |
| influencedBy |
Pythagoreanism
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surface form:
Pythagorean school
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| knownFor |
early heliocentric model
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estimating relative distances of the Sun and Moon ⓘ estimating relative sizes of the Sun and Moon ⓘ placing the Sun at the center of the known universe ⓘ proposing that Earth orbits the Sun ⓘ |
| languageOfWork | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| legacy | early formulation of heliocentrism in Western science ⓘ |
| mentionedBy |
Archimedes
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Plutarch ⓘ |
| name | Aristarchus of Samos self-link ⓘ |
| nativeLanguage | Ancient Greek ⓘ |
| opposedBy |
Stoic philosophers
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contemporary Greek philosophers ⓘ |
| placeOfBirth | Samos ⓘ |
| placeOfOrigin | Samos ⓘ |
| proposed |
Earth revolves annually around the Sun
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Earth rotates daily on its axis ⓘ Sun at rest at the center of the cosmos ⓘ fixed stars are very distant ⓘ |
| usedMethod |
geometric reasoning
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observation of lunar eclipses ⓘ observation of lunar phases ⓘ |
| workAuthored | On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon ⓘ |
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Referenced by (9)
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