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Aristarchus was an ancient Greek grammarian. He was born in 160 BC at Samothrace and died in 88 BC. He criticised Homer's poems with the greatest acuteness and ability, endeavouring to restore the text to its genuine state, and to clear it of all interpolations and corruptions; hence the phrase, Aristarchian criticism. His edition of Homer furnished the basis of all subsequent ones.
Aristarchus was an ancient Greek astronomer belonging to Samos. He lived between 280 and 264 BC, and first asserted the revolution of the earth about the sun. He is also regarded as the inventor of the sun-dial.
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