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the astronomer who first said that the earth and the plannets revolved around the sun
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For more on marking an answer as the "Best Answer", please visit our FAQ.And yet a reference in Archimedes' 3rd Century BC book 'The Sand Reckoner' describes the heliocentric theory of the solar system proposed by Aristarchus of Samos thus:
"His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, that the Earth revolves about the Sun on the circumference of a circle, the Sun lying in the middle of the orbit..."
"His hypotheses are that the fixed stars and the Sun remain unmoved, that the Earth revolves about the Sun on the circumference of a circle, the Sun lying in the middle of the orbit..."