CIVILIZATION
GREEK
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the chariot of Apollo
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the center of the universe
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revolving around the earth
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collapsing
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Detailed explanation-1: -310 – c. 230 BCE) was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known heliocentric model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe, with the Earth revolving around the Sun once a year and rotating about its axis once a day.
Detailed explanation-2: -Nicolaus Copernicus (1473–1543) was a mathematician and astronomer who proposed that the sun was stationary in the center of the universe and the earth revolved around it.
Detailed explanation-3: -The sun was 19 times bigger than the moon (actual value was about 400). Therefore, the sun was just over 6 times bigger than the earth (actual value is just over 100). This led Aristarchus to believe that the sun was the center of the universe!
Detailed explanation-4: -Aristarchus of Samos was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician who presented the first known model that placed the Sun at the center of the known universe with the Earth revolving around it.