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    bowl-shaped Polybius A and Polybius B craterlets. By convention these features are identified on lunar maps by placing the letter on the side of the crater midpoint...
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  • swimming crabs Polybius (crater), a lunar impact crater Polybius (urban legend), a fictitious video game featured in urban legend Polybius (2017 video game)...
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    southeast of the crater Sacrobosco, and southwest of Polybius. To the northwest along the same flank of the formation is the crater Fermat. The rim of...
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    west-northwest is the crater Tacitus, and the lava-flooded Beaumont lies to the east along the shore of Mare Nectaris. To the south-southeast is Polybius. With the...
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  • the crater and the person the crater is named for. Where a crater formation has associated satellite craters, these are detailed on the main crater description...
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  • learning on this account. The lunar crater Sulpicius Gallus is named after him. See Livy xliv. 37, Epit. 46; Polybius xxxi. 9, 10; Cicero, Brutus, 20, De...
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    Sapping Siege warfare Subterranean warfare Trench warfare Polybius. Histories. 21.28 Polybius. Histories. 16.11 Polyb. 10.31.6–10 "LacusCurtius • Frontinus...
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    tactic for breaching and breaking enemy defences. The Greek historian Polybius, in his Histories, described accounts of mining during Philip V of Macedon's...
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    the work can be pieced together from other great historians like Pliny, Polybius, Strabo, and Marcianus. While this work is the earliest we can trace certain...
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    Africa, which may have been a conflation with Necho's voyage, while Strabo, Polybius, and Ptolemy doubted the description; at the time it was not generally...
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    Edinburgh: T&T Clark. p. 424. ISBN 978-0-567-08651-8. "Planetary Names: Crater, craters: Pharos on Proteus". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature. USGS Astrogeology...
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    Cicero Confucius Lactantius Laozi Mencius Mozi Origen Philo Plato Plutarch Polybius Tertullian Thucydides Xunzi Medieval Alpharabius Aquinas Avempace Bruni...
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    historians. The earliest reference to Archimedes occurs in The Histories by Polybius (c. 200–118 BC), written about 70 years after his death. It sheds little...
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    legendary founder of Sinope, Autolycus, with Jason and the Argonauts. Polybius described Sinope as being "on the way to Phasis". The Persian Achaemenid...
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    discoveries have survived in the works of later, often skeptical, authors. Polybius in his work The Histories (c. 140 BC), Book XXXIV, cites Pytheas as one...
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    Descartes dedicated the work titled The Mathematical Treasure Trove of Polybius, Citizen of the World to "learned men throughout the world and especially...
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    vulnerable Porta Ercolano with his artillery as can still be seen by the impact craters of thousands of ballista shots in the walls. Many nearby buildings inside...
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    southern high-latitude region, which he called Antarctica. Aristoteles is a crater on the Moon bearing the classical form of Aristotle's name. (6123) Aristoteles...
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  • director of the Palomar Observatory during the 1990s MPC · 6173 6174 Polybius 1983 TR2 Polybius (c. 208–125 BC), Ancient Greek historian MPC · 6174 6175 Cori...
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    adopted the same name. Astronomers have bestowed his name on the Voltaire crater on Deimos and the asteroid 5676 Voltaire. Voltaire was also known to have...
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    PLINIVS, a 2013 manga biography of Pliny Plinian eruption Plinius, lunar crater Saller, Richard. 2022. Pliny's Roman Economy: Natural History, Innovation...
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    an aspect of Isis. Situated on opposite sides of the lake and atop the crater walls are the towns of Genzano and Nemi. Genzano was dedicated by the Romans...
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  • miasma, hiatus, calliope y hydra, python, papyrus (y remains short, e.g. Polybius) hyæna, myopia o /oʊ/ O, pro bonus, toga odium, encomium, opprobrium boa...
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  • sunset conditions, appearing like a rectilinear scarp-like feature at crater Polybius K) Bent Larsen, Danish chess player – Larsen's Opening. Giovanni Paolo...
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    Gilgamesh Greek Literature: Odyssey The Histories (Herodotus) On the Ocean Argonautica The Histories (Polybius) Metamorphoses Geography Aeneid Tākitimu...
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    000 stades. In his Histories, Posidonius continued the World History of Polybius. His history of the period 146–88 BC is said to have filled 52 volumes...
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    architect of great houses, bridges, court houses and prisons. A small lunar crater has been named after Vitruvius and also an elongated lunar mountain Mons...
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    document confirming the existence of qanats at this time was written by Polybius who states that: "the streams are running down from everywhere at the base...
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    Averrhoa (whose members include the starfruit and the bilimbi), the lunar crater ibn Rushd, and the asteroid 8318 Averroes are named after him. Mael Malihabadi's...
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  • Hrozný (Bedřich Hrozný, archaeologist, orientalist, and linguist) 6174 Polybius (Polybius) 6304 Josephus Flavius (Josephus) 16413 Abulghazi (Abulghazi Bahadur)...
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