Aristarchus of Samos, mathematician and Greek astronomer of the 3RD century b. C., the first he defended against common sense and the conventional wisdom of his time, the heliocentric theory-based, according to his calculations, the greater size of the Sun. We know it from the writings of Plutarch and Archimedes. Aristarchus derived from aristos, the best, in Greek, and arkeo, send, govern. With very few exceptions, his theory was banished from the astronomy until Copernicus ( 16TH century ).
