Aristarchus

=ARISTARCHUS OF SAMOS=
 * **//• he lived from 310 B.C.-230B.C.//**
 * **//• he was from samos a island that is part of grease//**
 * **//• he was known as//** //**a mathematician**//
 * **//• he was good at math and observations//**
 * //• he was the first to say that the earth and other parts of the galaxy revolve around the sun not the other way around//**
 * //• he found out that when the moon kind of looks like a banana its because the earth is blocking the suns rays from hiting that part of the moon.//**
 * //• he found out the earth is more than 18 times to the moon,to the sun by less than 20 times//**
 * //• the reason why we know of Aristarchus's work is because Archimedes mentioned his thought s and ideas in his books before the other scientist destroyed Aristarchus's work//**
 * **//he said that the moon is viewable because the suns rays reflect off of it then the people see it//**
 * **//he figured out that the moon was closer to the earth then the sun because during a eclipes he messured the earths shadow on the moon, Thales a fellow astronamer had found out how to predict when an eclips would happen and Anaxagoras showed how they worked//**
 * **//all though we know now that the earth revolves around the sun but the people liked Aristotles theroy that the sun revolves around the earth.//**
 * **//all though aristarchus's work was semiflawed because the tech was not high//**
 * **//All of the people that didnt belive him burnt his files in anger because they were skeptical.//**
 * **//he figured out how to measure the distance between the sun,the earth and the moon.//**
 * **//the angle of E-M-S is 90° when the moon is exactly half full.//**
 * **//aristarchus also figured out how to figure out the size of the moon.//**
 * **//one of his conclustions was that the moon must be half the size of the earth.//**
 * **//he firgured out all this because of the shadow on the earth created by the moon.//**
 * //**aristarchus proved 18 propositions to be true but the 3 most known area about the sun and the moon**//