Question

Summarise the main points from the powerpoint slide in the space below


Aristarchus of Samos (an ancient Greek astronomer) is believed to be the first person to say out loud that Earth wasn’t the centre of everything and that it was actually the Sun.

This was way back in around 300 BC.
Even before this, philosophers Philolaus and then Hicetas had thought that Earth was moving around some kind of ‘central
fire’.

As far as anyone can tell, no one really took the idea much further at the time and the theory wasn’t developed until
many centuries later.