There was aristarchus and Copernicus and Tycho.
"Long Ago, Far Away"
William Fitzgerald Jenkins AKA Murray Leinster
12. aristarchus is the most brilliant of the lunar craters, being specially vivid with a low power in a large telescope.
"The Story of the Heavens"
Robert Stawell Ball
After communicating with them, aristarchus deceived the garrison in Oenoe by telling them that their countrymen in the city had compounded with the Lacedaemonians, and that one of the terms of the capitulation was that they must surrender the place to the Boeotians.
"The History of the Peloponnesian War"
Thucydides