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Definition of Aristarchus
1. Noun. An ancient Greek grammarian remembered for his commentary on the Iliad and Odyssey (circa 217-145 BC).
2. Noun. A bright crater on the Moon.
Definition of Aristarchus
1. Proper noun. (given name male from=Ancient Greek), of historical use only in English. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Aristarchus
Literary usage of Aristarchus
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Short History of Science by William Thompson Sedgwick, Harry Walter Tyler (1917)
"aristarchus had no trigonometry, and no other method of attacking this problem
... In his Sand Counting already mentioned, Archimedes says of aristarchus, ..."
2. The Attic Orators from Antiphon to Isaeos by Richard Claverhouse Jebb (1893)
"STEMMA aristarchus I. had two sons and two daughters, ... Her nearest kinsmen
were, her uncle Aristomenes, brother of aristarchus L, and his son Apollodorus ..."
3. Record of Christian Work edited by Alexander McConnell, William Revell Moody, Arthur Percy Fitt (1908)
"Luke with all his insight really did se the greatness of aristarchus ; or er it
was that he saw the greatness i man, yet never dreamed of dwelling it as ..."
4. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology by William Smith (1849)
"257) e»me writers have inferred, that aristarchus did not write anything at all.
... All the works of aristarchus are lost, and all that we have of hie ..."
5. The Student, and Intellectual Observer (1869)
"THE lunar craters aristarchus and Herodotus are scarcely half the diameter ...
In studying aristarchus, the point to which I directed my attention was its ..."
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