" The earliest known astronomer to recognize and assess the movement of precession was aristarchus of samos , who lived around 280 b.c. , " rao told livescience .
And sailing from there we came the following day opposite chi'os ; the next day we touched at samos ; and the day after that we came to mile'tus .
从那里开船,次日到了基阿的对面;又次日,在撒摩靠岸;又次日,来到米利都。
Pythagoras of samos was a 6th century bc mystic sage who believed that numbers are behind everything in the universe - and that cosmic events recur identically over a cycle of 10800 years .