• Euctemon (Greek: Εὐκτήμων, gen. Εὐκτήμωνος; fl. 432 BC) was an Athenian astronomer. He was a contemporary of Meton and worked closely with this astronomer...
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    Euctemon is a lunar impact crater that is located in the northern part of the Moon, along the northwest rim of the crater Baillaud. To the southwest of...
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  • Aglaonice Anaxagoras Archytas Aristaeus Callippus Cleostratus Democritus Euctemon Eudoxus Heraclides Hicetas Hippocrates of Chios Meton Oenopides Parmenides...
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    Attalus Autolycus Bion Callippus Cleomedes Cleostratus Conon Eratosthenes Euctemon Eudoxus Geminus Heraclides Hicetas Hipparchus Hippocrates of Chios Hypsicles...
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    Attalus Autolycus Bion Callippus Cleomedes Cleostratus Conon Eratosthenes Euctemon Eudoxus Geminus Heraclides Hicetas Hipparchus Hippocrates of Chios Hypsicles...
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  • the Metonic cycle, was developed in Athens by the astronomers Meton and Euctemon (known to be active in 432 BC), could have been used to pattern the insertion...
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    Avienius, the ancient Greek traveller Euctemon recorded that thirty stadia separate [the Pillars of Hercules]; [Euctemon] says that they bristle with woods...
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    equation of the center in the Hipparchan model.) Before Hipparchus, Meton, Euctemon, and their pupils at Athens had made a solstice observation (i.e., timed...
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  • years previously. Meton's observations were made in collaboration with Euctemon, about whom nothing else is known. The Greek astronomer Callippus expanded...
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    Attalus Autolycus Bion Callippus Cleomedes Cleostratus Conon Eratosthenes Euctemon Eudoxus Geminus Heraclides Hicetas Hipparchus Hippocrates of Chios Hypsicles...
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    there was mass apostasy (renunciation of the faith). At Smyrna, the bishop Euctemon sacrificed and encouraged others to do the same. Because the Church was...
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  • only exceeded by records of the summer solstice of 432 BC, as noted by Euctemon and Meton. Timocharis worked with Aristillus in an astronomical observatory...
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  • 92.3 Glaucippus 409–408 92.4 Diocles Anytus is a strategos 408–407 93.1 Euctemon 407–406 93.2 Antigenes Alcibiades, Adeimantus, and Aristocrates are strategoi...
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  • 1935 Euclid (c. 300 BC) WGPSN Euctemon 76°16′N 30°34′E / 76.26°N 30.57°E / 76.26; 30.57 (Euctemon) 62.7 1935 Euctemon (flourished 432 BC) WGPSN Eudoxus...
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  • philosopher, archon Euclid – mathematician Eucratides – Greco-Bactrian king Euctemon – astronomer Eudamidas I – King of Sparta Eudamidas II – King of Sparta...
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    the northwest is the crater Scoresby, and to the east are Baillaud and Euctemon. By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the...
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    scholars: Thales, Anaxagoras, Pythagoras, Xenophanes, Democritus, Eudoxus, Euctemon, Callippus, Meton, Philippus, Hipparchus, and Aratus. However, Mattusch...
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  • until a commission was appointed into the matter, moved by Euctemon and Diodorus. Euctemon and Diodorus gave information against the two trierarchs who...
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  • into the Athenian calendar as a method of calculating dates. Working with Euctemon, he observes the summer solstice on 27 June. Pheidias completes the sculptures...
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  • into the Athenian calendar as a method of calculating dates. Working with Euctemon, he observes the summer solstice on 27 June. Pheidias completes the sculptures...
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  • Euclid's Optics Euclid of Megara Euclidean algorithm Euclidean geometry Euctemon Eudaemon Eudaimonia Eudamidas I Eudamidas II Eudamidas III Eudemian Ethics...
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  • Onomacles was dispatched with part of the armament, and with Strombichides and Euctemon, to fight against Chios. E Elder (1873). A Dictionary of Greek and Roman...
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    immediately begins his speech by addressing the jury, and explains that Euctemon believes it is his duty to not only get satisfaction for his beliefs, but...
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  • (411–410 BC) Glaucippus, Archon (410–409 BC) Diocles, Archon (409–408 BC) Euctemon, Archon (408–407 BC) Antigenes, Archon (407–406 BC) Callias Angelides,...
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  • was in use (= 99 months). Shortly after Oenopides, in 432 BC, Meton and Euctemon discovered the better value of 18 years, equal to 223 months (the so-called...
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    of impacts, leaving a hilly ridge surrounding the interior. The crater Euctemon is intruding into the rim to the northeast, and the rim bulges outward...
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  • Joseph Erlanger Luis Enrique Erro Ernest Esclangon T. H. E. C. Espin Euclid Euctemon Eudoxus of Cnidus Leonhard Euler Abraham ibn Ezra Daniel Gabriel Fahrenheit...
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    located near the northern limb of the Moon, to the north of the Baillaud–Euctemon crater pair. Due to its location, this crater appears very foreshortened...
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