Crossword-Solution: ARISTARCHUS
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| Greek astronomer of 3d cen B. C. | 1 answer |
| Greek grammarian | 1 answer |
| AN ANCIENT GREEK GRAMMARIAN REMEMBERED FOR HIS COMMENTARY ON THE ILIAD AND ODYSSEY | 11 answers |
| CLASSICAL scholar | 14 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
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Sentences with ARISTARCHUS (5)
Bot toward oure Marches hiere, Of the Latins if thou wolt hiere, Of hem that whilom vertuous Were and therto laborious, Carmente made of hire engin The ferste lettres of Latin, Of which the tunge Romein cam, Wherof that Aristarchus nam 2640 Forth with Donat and Dindimus The ferste reule of Scole, as thus, How that Latin schal be componed And in what wise it schal be soned, That every word in his degre Schal stonde upon congruite.
For plausible elaboration of it, and for supposed agreement of the Scripture with it, see Fromundus, Anti-Aristarchus, Antwerp, 1631; also Melanchthon's Initia Doctrinae Physicae.
Here comes in a proof that the antagonism between theological and scientific methods is not confined to Christianity; for this statement brought upon Aristarchus the charge of blasphemy, and drew after it a cloud of prejudice which hid the truth for six hundred years.
For Fromundus's more famous attack, see his Ant-Aristarchus, already cited, passim, but especially the heading of chap.
Aristarchus is principally famous for his attempt to discover the distance of the sun as compared with that of the moon.
Quotes with ARISTARCHUS (3)
History of science is a relay race, my painter friend. Copernicus took over his flag from Aristarchus, from Cicero, from Plutarch; and Galileo took that flag over from Copernicus.
We will know which stars to visit. Our descendants will then skim the light years, the children of Thales and Aristarchus, Leonardo and Einstein.
Note to academics: Aristarchus' track record of astronomical research would probably have guaranteed him tenure somewhere, if tenure had been invented. His stack of reprints included measuring the distances of the Moon and Sun.
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Appears in: NYT.
Used 2 times in crossword archives (1957–1973).