• Cleomedes (Greek: Κλεομήδης) was a Greek astronomer who is known chiefly for his book On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies (Κυκλικὴ θεωρία...
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    Cleomedes to popularise the discovery. Cleomedes invites his reader to consider two Egyptian cities, Alexandria and Syene (modern Assuan): Cleomedes assumes...
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    armillary sphere. In On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies, Cleomedes credited him with having calculated the Earth's circumference around 240...
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  • through it (the Earth) extending through the middle of the sky" Cleomedes (2004). Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of The Heavens. Translated...
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    Cleomedes is a prominent lunar impact crater located in the northeast part of the visible Moon, to the north of Mare Crisium. It was named after Greek...
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    BCE) 7′ 490 0.021 -97.9% Posidonius (1st century BCE) (quoted by coeval Cleomedes) 21″ 10,000 0.426 -57.4% Ptolemy (2nd century) 2′ 50″ 1,210 0.052 -94...
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    in the Trojan and Theban wars, Menelaus, and the historical pugilist Cleomedes of Astupalaea, were also believed to have been made physically immortal...
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    Apollonius Archimedes Autolycus Bion Bryson Callippus Carpus Chrysippus Cleomedes Conon Ctesibius Democritus Dicaearchus Diocles Diophantus Dinostratus...
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    perceived distance explanation, he was not the first author to offer it. Cleomedes (c. 2nd century) gave this account (in addition to refraction), and he...
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  • 320 BC) Peripatetic Cleinias of Tarentum 4th century BC Pythagorean Cleomedes Stoic Cleomenes fl. c. 300 BC Cynic Clinomachus 4th century BC Megarian...
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