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Not quite. Heliocentrism was introduced around 270 BC by a Greek astronomer. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocen
by chithanh 8y ago
Not quite. Heliocentrism was introduced around 270 BC by a Greek astronomer.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliocentrism
The oldest estimates for the Antikythera Mechanism are 205 BC.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antikythera_mechanism
So it is very well possible, if not likely, that the builders of the Antikythera Mechanism were aware of the heliocentric model.
- _Codemonkeyism 8y agoAmazing. Also amazing to me is the caluclation of the size of the moon and distance of the earth from the sun around the same time [1] [2] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sizes_and_Distances_(Aristarchus) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/On_the_Sizes_and_Distances_(Ar... [2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus#Distance,_parallax,_size_of_the_Moon_and_the_Sun https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hipparchus#Distance,_parallax,...
- burtonator 8y agoThey might have been "aware" of it the way people were aware of Evolution before Charles Darwin. Even Erasmus Darwin (Charles Darwin's grandfather) discussed evolution but Charles really filled in the gaps. So it might have been an early developing model with discussion among contemporaries before it really "landed".