Records of Aristarchus's works are fragmentary ... except that Aristotle's own preferred cosmology (elaborating on ideas from his mentor, Plato) consisted of approximately fifty-five thick ...

That the Aristarchus region would capture my interest is not by any means surprising. Among its many superlative characteristics, the plateau is home to Aristarchus, a young impact crater 25 miles ...

"A round Earth appears at least as early as the sixth century B.C. with Pythagoras, who was followed by Aristotle, Euclid, and Aristarchus ... an established fact of cosmology." ...

A few centuries later, there had been a lot of progress. Aristarchus of Samos (310BC to 230BC) argued that the Sun was the “central fire” of the cosmos and he placed all of the then known ...

In November 2011, the space agency's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter spacecraft passed over the moon's Aristarchus crater, which spans 25 miles (40 kilometers) and sinks more than 2 miles (3.5 ...

ARISTARCHUS, who flourished in the first half of the third century B.C., is chiefly known as the only philosopher or astronomer of antiquity who taught that the earth moves, round the sun.

The Aristarchus plateau is an area of the Moon ripe for future exploration due to the diversity of its impact and volcanic materials. It features a prominent crater so bright it’s not only ...