Aristarchus

Aristarchus ( Greek Ἀρίσταρχος Arístarchos , Latinized Aristarchus ) means:

• Aristarchus of Samos (3rd century BC), Greek astronomer and mathematician
• Aristarchus of Samothrace (2nd century BC), Greek philologist
• Aristarchus of Tegea , Greek poet
• Aristarchus , a moon crater
• (3999) Aristarchus , an asteroid
• the Aristarchus Telescope, see list of the largest optical telescopes
• Aristarchus, sive De contemptu linguae Teutonicae , the first work of the German poet Martin Opitz von Boberfeld
• Aristarchus of Thessalonice , a companion of St. Paul

Aristarchus denotes transferred

• a "severe critic" (after Aristarchus of Samothrace)

This is a disambiguation page for differentiating between several terms identified with the same word.