• Theon of Smyrna (Greek: Θέων ὁ Σμυρναῖος Theon ho Smyrnaios, gen. Θέωνος Theonos; fl. 100 CE) was a Greek philosopher and mathematician, whose works were...
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    Theon Senior A can be found to the north. Theon Senior is named for Theon of Smyrna, a 1st-2nd century Greek mathematician and philosopher. This crater...
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  • vocalist for Lovex Theon of Alexandria (c. 335 – c. 405), a Greek astronomer and mathematician Theon of Samos, painter Theon of Smyrna (c. 70 – c. 135)...
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  • Crows; On the Rising of the Dog[-Star]; and On the Inundation of the Nile. Agora (film) Theon of Smyrna John M. McMahon, "Theon of Alexandria" entry in...
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  • Menelaus Porphyry Posidonius Proclus Ptolemy Sosigenes of Alexandria Sosigenes the Peripatetic Strabo Theodosius Theon of Alexandria Theon of Smyrna...
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  • Posidonius Proclus Ptolemy Pythagoras Serenus Simplicius Sosigenes of Alexandria Sporus Theodosius Theon of Alexandria Theon of Smyrna Zeno of Sidon...
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  • philosopher Nymphidianus of Smyrna (4th century), Neoplatonist and sophist who lived in the time of the emperor Julian Theon of Smyrna (c. 70–c. 135), Greek...
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    shortly before Ptolemy's time, were written by Cleomedes, Geminus, and Theon of Smyrna. Books by Roman authors like Pliny the Elder and Vitruvius contain...
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  • commentaries of his on the Timaeus of Plato are also quoted by Porphyry, which was also used by Theon of Smyrna in the surviving sections of his On Mathematics...
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    Autolycus, Philo of Byzantium, Biton, Apollonius, Archimedes, Euclid, Theodosius, Hypsicles, Athenaeus, Geminus, Heron, Apollodorus, Theon of Smyrna, Cleomedes...
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  • This list of ancient Greek philosophers contains philosophers who studied in ancient Greece or spoke Greek. Ancient Greek philosophy began in Miletus with...
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    entity. In this sense Theon of Smyrna used it to describe a number which added to a polygonal number produces the next one of the same type. The most...
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    mathematician Crates of Mallus, constructed the earliest known globe of the Earth Theodosius of Bithynia, astronomer and mathematician Theon of Smyrna, mathematician...
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    interest in Pythagorean views on the importance of numbers was sustained by mathematicians such as Theon of Smyrna, Anatolius and Iamblichus. These mathematicians...
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  • evidence of the syncretism of Mithras and Phanes. A list of the eight elements of creation appears in Zenobius and Theon of Smyrna; most of the elements...
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    (2006). The Origin of the History of Science in Classical Antiquity. Walter de Gruyter. pp. 84, quoting Plutarch and Theon of Smyrna. ISBN 978-3-11-017966-8...
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    Nicomachus, and Theon of Smyrna) XVII. Trigonometry: Hipparchus, Menelaus, Ptolemy XVIII. Mensuration: Heron of Alexandria XIX. Pappus of Alexandria XX...
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    commentary thereon by Pappus; Theon of Smyrna (2nd century) also mentions the work, under the title On Sizes and Distances of the Sun and Moon. Hipparchus...
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    Theon of Smyrna wrote that by climbing the mast of a ship, one could see land that is invisible to those on deck. The first recorded appearance of the...
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  • of Antinouplis Simplicius of Cilicia Sporus of Nicaea Thales Theaetetus Theano Theodorus of Cyrene Theodosius of Bithynia Theon of Alexandria Theon of...
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    The Counter-Earth is a hypothetical body of the Solar System that orbits on the other side of the Solar System from Earth. A Counter-Earth or Antichthon...
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    {\displaystyle =n^{2}} This property, colloquially known as the theorem of Theon of Smyrna, is visually demonstrated in the following sum, which represents T...
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    Antikythera mechanism (category History of computing)
    is an Ancient Greek hand-powered orrery (model of the Solar System). It is the oldest known example of an analogue computer used to predict astronomical...
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  • Platonists there were Theon of Smyrna, who wrote a mathematical introduction to Plato, and Gaius (2nd century) who was a teacher of Platonist philosophy...
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    the mathematician Theon of Alexandria in the 4th century. The use of the term "axiom" instead of "postulate" derives from the choice of Proclus to do so...
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    Cambridge, UK: Cambridge University Press. pp. 191–208. English trans. Theon of Smyrna. Τωv κατά τό μαθηματικόν χρησίμων είς τήν Πλάτωνος άνάγνωσις [On the...
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    relied on observations made by himself and a certain "Theon" (perhaps, Theon of Smyrna). In models of planetary motion that precede Ptolemy, generally attributed...
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    of this sequence of approximations: Plato refers to the numerators as rational diameters. In the second century CE Theon of Smyrna used the term the...
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  • This terminology can be traced to ancient Greece and sources such as Theon of Smyrna. Completely unrelated to the above sense, a synthesizer is called paraphonic...
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  • greater than the number itself, as in 12, have — since as early as Theon of Smyrna, ca. 130 A.D. — been called "redundant" (Latin: redundantio), "more...
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