- Aristarchus of Samos is believed to be the first person to suggest that Earth is not the center of the universe, but rather the Sun.
- This occurred around 300 BC.
- Prior to Aristarchus, philosophers like Philolaus and Hicetas had also entertained the idea of Earth moving around a "central fire".
- However, the idea did not gain much traction or development at the time and was further developed many centuries later.
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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.
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