Aristarchus was a famous Greek mathematician and astronomer from Samos, who lived roughly 310 BC through 250 BC. People from the ancient world and the modern world knows very little about the great Greek astronomer, even scientists and mathematicians of antiquity have written little about Aristarchus, Archimedes was one of them. He was known to be a student of Strato of Lampsacus, senior Lyceum of Aristotle. It is believed that research Aristarchus not took place in Athens, but in Alexandria when Strato was chief Lyceum.

There are two things that should be best Aristarchus, the first being on the Earth’s rotation around the sun and the other from the earth and the size of the sun and moon. Aristarchus wrote extensively on many of his works, the only surviving work is the study of the sun, moon of size and distance of the two parties. This work does not imminent proof of work relating to the heliocentric view of the universe. However, the methods he used to calculate the distance and the size of the sun and moon are basically right. Some of the interpretation was wrong that the lack of equipment and inadequate information on the numbers to his knowledge.

Nicoluas Copernicus placed Aristarchus first time in his article for jobs Aristarchus in “De Revolutionibus Caelestibus” which says Philolaus believes that the earth moves and some say Aristarchus of Samos was also belongs to religion. But before the release of this version of the line was crossed. There is very little information available about Aristarchus, about his birth and life and very little about his death. Name Aristarchus is used to name a crater on the moon is maximum at the center and is brightest structure of the moon.