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    Chios (/ˈkaɪ.ɒs, ˈkaɪ.oʊs, ˈkiː-/; Greek: Χίος, romanized: Chíos [ˈçi.os] , traditionally known as Scio in English) is the fifth largest Greek island,...
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  • Oenopides of Chios (Greek: Οἰνοπίδης ὁ Χῖος; born c. 490 BCE) was an ancient Greek geometer, astronomer and mathematician, who lived around 450 BCE. Only...
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    among others, Thales of Miletus, the Pythagoreans, Oenopides of Chios, and Hippocrates of Chios. Among the topics Eudemus discussed were the discovery...
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    earlier Greek mathematicians, including Eudoxus of Cnidus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus. With Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga, Euclid...
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    Squaring the circle (category CS1 German-language sources (de))
    problem was Anaxagoras, who worked on it while in prison. Hippocrates of Chios attacked the problem by finding a shape bounded by circular arcs, the lune...
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    sum, 10, was sacred and omnipotent. Burch, 1954, p.286-7 Pomponius Mela. de Chorographia. DUNCOMBE, R. L. "Appendix E. Report on Numerical Experiment...
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    lapsed until British science historian and Yale University professor Derek J. de Solla Price became interested in 1951. In 1971, Price and Greek nuclear physicist...
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  • Boreas) Chione (daughter of Callirrhoe) Chionides Chionis of Sparta Chios Chios (Caria) Chirimachus Chiron Chiton Chiusi Painter Chlamys Chloris Chloris...
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    Democritus Empedocles Hephaestio Heraclides Ponticus Hicetas Hippocrates of Chios Macrobius Martianus Capella Menelaus of Alexandria (Menelaus theorem) Meton...
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  • O'Day (1897–1961) WGPSN Oenopides 57°08′N 64°12′W / 57.13°N 64.2°W / 57.13; -64.2 (Oenopides) 73.47 1935 Oenopides of Chios (c. 500–430 BC) WGPSN Oersted...
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