Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- Greek grammarian and critic noted for his arrangement of and commentary on the Iliad and the Odyssey.
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- proper noun A male
given name , ofhistorical use only in English.
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- noun an ancient Greek grammarian remembered for his commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey (circa 217-145 BC)
- noun a bright crater on the Moon
Etymologies
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Examples
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Intriguingly, he worked out values for two universes - the conventional one with the Earth at the centre, and one based on a weird idea from someone called Aristarchus that had the Earth going around the Sun.
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Intriguingly, he worked out values for two universes - the conventional one with the Earth at the centre, and one based on a weird idea from someone called Aristarchus that had the Earth going around the Sun.
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Thus the Russian penal colony was officially titled Aristarchus Center, even though most lunar residents still called it by its older name: Lunagrad.
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One of the most remarkable of these is found in the _Oceanus Procellarum_, near the crater-mountain Aristarchus, which is famed for the intense brilliance of its central peak, whose reflective power is so great that it was once supposed to be aflame with volcanic fire.
Other Worlds Their Nature, Possibilities and Habitability in the Light of the Latest Discoveries
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Others, such as Aristarchus, were spitted on their own critical signs of disapproval.
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Walker writes: "They imprisoned Galileo for his heretical ideas of heliocentric solar system, and rejected his science (by the way, The Greek thinker, Aristarchus, developed the first heliocentric theory in 270 BCE, not Copernicus as many Christians falsely believe)."
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Aristarchus of Samos, who first theorized that the sun was the center of the solar system and the earth revolved on its own axis, was resident in the city, as was the geographer and polymath Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who calculated the circumference of the earth with great accuracy.
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Bay wreaths being a spoil to victors, back when grammarian Aristarchus of Samothrace was a librarian in Alexandria.
“Recent exemplifications of false philology” « Motivated Grammar
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Aristarchus of Samos, who first theorized that the sun was the center of the solar system and the earth revolved on its own axis, was resident in the city, as was the geographer and polymath Eratosthenes of Cyrene, who calculated the circumference of the earth with great accuracy.
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Universal shallowness wonders and applauds; and Aristarchus the Little, fired to dare fresh achievements, is certain of new weeds to wreathe with his deciduous bays.
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