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APOLLONIUS OF PERGA: 262-190 BC
The Hellenistic mathematician APOLLONIUS OF PERGA,
circa 262-c.190 BC, noted that the annual motion of
the Sun can be approximated by a circle with the
Earth slightly off-center, or eccentric, thus
accounting for the observed variation in speed over
a year.