• 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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  • Eudoxus may refer to: Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 395–390 BC – c. 342–337 BC), Greek astronomer and mathematician, student of Plato Eudoxus of Cyzicus (fl. c...
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    certain, indeterminate, depth. Eudoxus of Cnidus, in around 380 BCE, devised a geometric-mathematical model for the movements of the planets based on (conceptual)...
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    Euclid (redirect from Euclid of Alexandria)
    combination with a synthesis of theories from earlier Greek mathematicians, including Eudoxus of Cnidus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus....
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    sphere as the frame of reference for their geometric theories of the motions of the heavenly bodies". With his adoption of Eudoxus of Cnidus' theory, Aristotle...
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    Because Archimedes credited it to Eudoxus of Cnidus it is also known as the "Theorem of Eudoxus" or the Eudoxus axiom. Archimedes used infinitesimals...
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    the Greek astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus. It is located to the south of the prominent crater Aristoteles in the northern regions of the visible Moon. To...
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    to the integral calculus. Eudoxus of Cnidus developed a theory of proportion that bears resemblance to the modern theory of real numbers using the Dedekind...
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    Aratus (redirect from Aratus of Soli)
    Latin: Phaenomena), the first half of which is a verse setting of a lost work of the same name by Eudoxus of Cnidus. It describes the constellations and...
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    earth, at the center of the universe. Plato and Eudoxus of Cnidus were both active in astronomical thought in the first half of the fourth century BC...
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