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Which US president was reburied 17 times?

U.S. President Abraham Lincoln has been reburied 17 times since his death, either due to reconstruction of the tomb or for security reasons. At the same time, his coffin was opened six times. Only in 1901, 36 years after his death, did Lincoln's body find its final rest.

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Who was the first to announce that the earth revolves around the sun?

Aristarchus of Samos, born in 310 BC. e. - 1800 years before Nicolaus Copernicus.

Aristarchus was not only the first to state that the Earth revolves around the fixed Sun, he also calculated the relative sizes and distances between the Earth, the Sun and the Moon and determined that the sky is not a sphere, but the Universe is of practically infinite dimensions. However, his ideas remained without attention.

During his lifetime, Aristarchus was known more as a mathematician than an astronomer. We know little about him personally, except that he studied at the Alexandrian Lyceum and was subsequently mentioned by the Roman architect Vitruvius as a man "informed in all branches of science." Aristarchus also invented the semicircular sundial.

Only one of his works has survived to this day - "On the Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon". Unfortunately, Aristarchus' theory of the solar center is not mentioned in it. And we know about all this from a single remark in the texts of Aristotle, where the conclusions of Aristarchus are mentioned only in order to disagree with them.

Of course, Copernicus knew about Aristarchus of Samos, it is not for nothing that he repays his debt in the epoch-making work for its time, On the Revolutions of the Heavenly Spheres. However, when the book was printed in 1514, all references to the far-sighted Greek were carefully erased from the text - probably the publisher was simply afraid that they might undermine the book's claims to originality.

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