[Verginius Rufus]

Samos was also the birthplace of Aristarchus of Samos, whose heliocentric theory (that the earth and planets circle around the sun instead of everything circling around the earth) was known to Copernicus.

[TXnMA]

"Samos was also the birthplace of Aristarchus of Samos,"

Yes, indeed -- a very important point!

I emphasized Pythagoras, because I include a submodule on Pythagoras and "his" "3, 4, 5 triangle" in my unit on "Archaeology for Fourth Grade"... (Even today's archaeologists use the principle for laying out precisely square excavation grids...)

But, then I "blow the Greek out of the water" by showing that Amenhotep in Egypt beat Pythagoras to it by over a millennium -- when he used the same "triangle" for laying out the Pyramids... '-)