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Aristarchus

noun

An ancient Greek grammarian remembered for his commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey (circa 217-145 BC).

A bright crater on the Moon.

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Aristarchus of Samos

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... libri sex.... Cui accessit T. Fieni et L. Fromondi dissertationes de cometa anni 1618.... This is from the 1670 edition. The 1619 edition was published at Antwerp. The Meteorologicorum libri VI, appeared at Antwerp in 1627. He also wrote Anti-Aristarchus sive orbis terrae immobilis liber unicus (Antwerp, 1631); Labyrrinthus sive de compositione continui liber unus, Philosophis, Mathematicis, Theologis utilis et jucundus (Antwerp, 1631) and Vesta sive Anti-Aristarchi vindex adversus Jac. ...

— A Budget of Paradoxes, Volume I (of II) • Augustus De Morgan

... their occurrence could be made. The Babylonians had thus long known that after a cycle of 223 lunations the eclipses of the moon return. The mechanism of the phases of that satellite was clearly understood. Indeed, Aristarchus of Samos attempted to ascertain the distance of the sun from the earth on the principle of observing the moon when she is dichotomized, a method quite significant of the knowledge of the time, though in practice ...

— History of the Intellectual Development of Europe, Volume I (of 2) - Revised Edition • John William Draper

... was as little of a dullard as Pope himself. The consequent alterations make the hero of the poem a thoroughly incongruous figure, and greatly injure the general design. The poem appeared in this form in 1743, with a ponderous prefatory discourse by Ricardus Aristarchus, contributed by the faithful Warburton, and illustrating his ponderous vein ...

— Alexander Pope - English Men of Letters Series • Leslie Stephen

Words linked to "Aristarchus" : syntactician, lunar crater, grammarian