Aristarchus Of Samos

Aristarchus Of Samos

male
geocentric, geocentricmodel, from the North Aegean, earth, hypothesis, craters of the Moon named after them…heliocentric model
Aristarchus was a Greek astronomer and mathematician, born on the island of Samos, in ancient Greece. He was the first person to present an...
Heraclides Ponticus

Heraclides Ponticus

male
Astronomer, Eretria, Herakleides, philosopher, Greek and Roman astronomer, mercury…geocentricmodel
Heraclides Ponticus (387 BC-312 BC), also known as Herakleides, was a Greek philosopher who lived and died at Heraclea Pontica, now Karadeniz...
Ibn Al-Shatir

Ibn Al-Shatir

male, deceased (1375)
geocentric, Islamic astronomy, epicycles, eccentricity, Umayyad Mosque, planets…Ptolemaic model, geocentricmodel
Ibn al-Shatir was an Arab Islamic astronomer. He worked as "muwaqqit" (موقت, religious timekeeper) in the Umayyad Mosque in Damascus and cons...
Jean-Baptiste Morin

Jean-Baptiste Morin

male, deceased (1656)
Christian, Astronomer, Astrologer, mathematician, descartes, French…geocentricmodel
Jean-Baptiste Morin, also known by his Latin pseudonym as Morinus, was a French mathematician, astrologer, and astronomer. Born in Villefranche,...