Samos
A powerful Ionian island once ruled by the tyrant Polycrates—birthplace of Pythagoras, home of the Eleatic monist Melissus, and the island whose son Aristarchus first dared to set the Sun, not the Earth, at the center of the cosmos.
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Teachers who lived here
Works composed here
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Melissus of Samos: Fragments & Testimonia
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De magnitudinibus et distantiis solis et lunae
Ideas shaped here
Concepts most frequently discussed in the works composed at Samos. Click any to trace the idea across time and place.