Question

How was Aristarchus's explanation of the movement of objects in the sky different from other scientists' earlier explanations

Answer 1

Answer:

Aristarchus explained that Sun is the center of solar system whie others thought that earth is the center of the solar system.

Explanation:

The ancient Greeks, thought that the Earth was in the center of heavenly bodies and everything revolves around it all (geocentric). But not every Greek believed that the Earth was in the middle such as Aristarchus of Samos, was the first known person to say that the Sun was in the center of the universe. He proposed this in the third century BCE.

Answer 2

Aristarchus could repudiate the convictions of individual Greeks and adjust logical speculations that he used to clarify the rising and setting of the sun and the moon.

1) The moon gets its light from the sun.

2) The earth is situated as a point in the focal point of the circle in which the moon moves.