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。
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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。
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It was there, 18 centuries before the Copernican revolution, that Aristarchus posited a heliocentric solar system and Eratosthenes calculated the circumference of the Earth.