• Aratus and Eudoxus. Spherics by Theodosius of Bithynia may be based on a work by Eudoxus. Eudoxus, son of Aeschines, was born and died in Cnidus (also transliterated...
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    ∼) U+223A ∺ GEOMETRIC PROPORTION (∺) Linear map Correlation Eudoxus of Cnidus Golden ratio Inverse-square law Proportional font Ratio Rule of three...
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    synthesis of theories from earlier Greek mathematicians, including Eudoxus of Cnidus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus. With Archimedes and...
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    the fundamental entities of the cosmological models developed by Plato, Eudoxus, Aristotle, Ptolemy, Copernicus, and others. In these celestial models...
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    (April 2019). Eudoxus, the most important mathematician you've never heard of. https://web.stanford.edu/~yuvalwig/math/teaching/Eudoxus.pdf Archived 2021-07-28...
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  • Empedocles Alcmaeon of Croton Hippasus Diogenes of Apollonia Plato Eudoxus of Cnidus Speusippus Xenocrates Aristotle Numenius Alexander of Aphrodisias...
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    classification was then greatly extended by Eudoxus of Cnidus; Knorr speculates that this extension stemmed out of Eudoxus' studies of the golden section. Along...
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    than the outer space should have some certain, indeterminate, depth. Eudoxus of Cnidus, in around 380 BC, devised a geometric-mathematical model for the...
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    470–410 BC, not the better known Hippocrates of Kos) for book III, and Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 408–355 BC) for book V, while books IV, VI, XI, and XII probably...
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  • definition of real numbers by Richard Dedekind (1831–1916); see Eudoxus of Cnidus § Eudoxus' proportions. In the Posterior Analytics, Aristotle (384–322 BC)...
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    the constellation is in Aratus, informed by the lost catalogue of Eudoxus of Cnidus (4th century BCE): To the Phantom's back the Crown is near, but by...
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    [citation needed] first introduced to Greece by Eudoxus of Cnidus in the 4th century BC. The original work of Eudoxus is lost, but it survives as a versification...
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  • Old Plato Aristotle Eudoxus Philip of Opus Aristonymus Coriscus and Erastus of Scepsis Demetrius of Amphipolis Euaeon of Lampsacus Heraclides and Python...
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    star catalogs entered Greek astronomy in the 4th century BC, via Eudoxus of Cnidus. Babylonia or Chaldea in the Hellenistic world came to be so identified...
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    such as Iasos, Miletus, and Cnidus. Part of this control had diplomatic elements. For example, the astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus, who developed a cosmic model...
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  • Diocles Dionysodorus Diophantus Domninus of Larissa Eratosthenes Euclid Eudoxus of Cnidus Eutocius of Ascalon Geminus Heliodorus of Larissa Hero of Alexandria...
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  • is constructed by Pāṇini in his Sanskrit grammar. 4th century BC: Eudoxus of Cnidus states the Archimedean property. 4th century BC: Thaetetus shows that...
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  • analysis. However, the area of a disk was studied by the Ancient Greeks. Eudoxus of Cnidus in the fifth century B.C. had found that the area of a disk is proportional...
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  • BC). Cosmologist. Speusippus (c. 408 – 339 BC). Nephew of Plato. Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 408 – 355 BC). Pupil of Plato. Diogenes of Sinope (c. 404 – 323...
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    to the terminus[clarification needed] G¨j perÐodoj introduced by Eudoxus of Cnidus. The use of equinoctial hours was already familiar in the work of...
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    also mentions similar mechanisms designed by Thales of Miletus and Eudoxus of Cnidus. The dialogue says that Marcellus kept one of the devices as his only...
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    will have undecidable statements. While early mathematicians such as Eudoxus of Cnidus did not use proofs, from Euclid to the foundational mathematics developments...
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    and Theaetetus), a second set of younger mathematicians (Neoclides, Eudoxus of Cnidus), and a third yet younger set (Amyntas, Menaechmus and his brother...
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    writers present Pythagoras as enforcing a strictly vegetarian diet. Eudoxus of Cnidus, a student of Archytas, writes, "Pythagoras was distinguished by such...
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    The algorithm was probably known by Eudoxus of Cnidus (about 375 BC). The algorithm may even pre-date Eudoxus, judging from the use of the technical...
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    prohibited his followers from eating beans and wearing woolen garments. Eudoxus of Cnidus, a student of Archytas and Plato, writes, "Pythagoras was distinguished...
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  • Espenak (United States, 1953–) Larry W. Esposito (United States, 1951–) Eudoxus (Cnidus, c. 408 BC – c. 355 BC) Robert Evans (Australia, 1937–2022) David Fabricius...
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    Hippocrates, but did not identify the constant of proportionality. Eudoxus of Cnidus, also in the 5th century BCE, also found that the area of a disk is...
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    known for his Elements, much of which was drawn from his predecessor Eudoxus of Cnidus. The Elements is a treatise on geometry, and it has exerted a continuing...
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    Venezuela place name WGPSN Eudoxus 44°54′S 147°30′W / 44.9°S 147.5°W / -44.9; -147.5 (Eudoxus) 98.0 1973 Eudoxus of Cnidus WGPSN Evpatoriya 47°18′N...
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