Cleostratus was a truly pioneering Greek astronomer who lived on the small Aegean island of Tenedos in the 6th century BC.

Seleucus of Seleucia was an ancient astronomer who defended heliocentrism, arguing that Earth orbits the Sun and rotates on ...

According to the Ancient Egyptian Astronomy Database , most of the diagonal star tables found in the past have been found in coffins made in the early Middle Kingdom around 2000 BC.