N a crater in the NE quadrant of the moon, having a diameter of about 37 kilometres, which is the brightest formation on the moon (月球上的)阿里斯塔克斯环形山
Aristarchus recognized from his calculations that the Sun was much larger than the Earth and other planets.
阿利斯塔克从他的计算中认识到,太阳比地球和其他行星要大得多。
But no one among the ancients, except perhaps Aristarchus, possessed both merits, and no one in the Middle Ages possessed either.
古代哲人中,两美兼具者殆无一人,唯一例外,或是亚里斯太克斯。
It was there, 18 centuries before the Copernican revolution, that Aristarchus posited a heliocentric solar system and Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth.
也就是在那里,在哥白尼学说出现的1800年之前,阿里斯塔克确立了以太阳为中心的太阳系的假说,埃拉托色尼计算出了地球的周长。
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