Sunday, February 21, 2010

Pre-Copernican

Aristarchus, a Greek astronomer living about 200 B.C., reportedly was the first person to declare that the Earth revolved around the sun. His theory was disregarded for hundreds of years.

1 comments:

the dogs' mother said...

The original thinkers, wouldn't have been fun to know them? We've got our own but how do you tell the thinkers from the snake oil salesmen?