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Vol. I. Aristarchus, a Grecian philosopher of Samos, one of the first that maintained that the earth turns upon its own centre. We are not sure of the age in which he lived; and have none of his works but a Treatise of the greatness and distance of the Sun and Moon, translated into Latin by Frederic Commandine, and published with Pappus's explanations in 1572.