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Who was the first person to conjecture that our Sun is just another star?

Relatedly, what was the first evidence that this was true?

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    $\begingroup$ I think Herschel's discovery binary star systems is a possible answer here, because before that there was no direct evidence that stars even have mass or interact gravitationally. $\endgroup$
    – David H
    Commented Oct 31, 2014 at 22:55
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    $\begingroup$ Starring this, thanks for asking! My own same question on another forum. $\endgroup$
    – dotancohen
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As quoted from this article:

Many people's work was needed to prove that the Sun is a star. The first person we know of to suggest that the Sun is a star up close (or, conversely, that stars are Suns far away) was Anaxagoras, around 450 BC. It was again suggested by Aristarchus of Samos, but this idea did not catch on. About 1800 years later, around AD 1590, Giordano Bruno suggested the same thing, and was burnt at the stake for it. Through the work of Galileo, Kepler, and Copernicus during the 16th and 17th centuries the nature of the solar system and the Sun's place in it became clear, and finally in the 19th century the distances to stars and other things about them could be measured by various people. Only then was it proved that the Sun is a star.

So the first conjecture would date back to the Greeks, however there was much controversy surrounding the idea because to it's resemblance of the gods. It seems that it is a relatively recent fact.

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    $\begingroup$ This is quite surprising. To complement, Terence Tao has a beautiful talk on astrometry, The cosmic distance ladder. $\endgroup$
    – Andrés E. Caicedo
    Commented Nov 1, 2014 at 1:56
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    $\begingroup$ I saw in a Copernicus museum in Poland that a valid objection of his geocentric model was that the mesured size of the stars (from apparent diameter and calculated distance) was several orders of magnitude bigger than the sun. It was understood later that stars apparent diameter was an observation artifact. $\endgroup$
    – ch7kor
    Commented May 6, 2015 at 13:30

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