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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Fixed stars (redirect from Sphere of fixed stars)
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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Archimedean property (redirect from Theorem of Eudoxus)
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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Greek mathematics (redirect from Mathematics of Greece)
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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