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  • If it was native, then certainly the Babylonians were not able to use and interpret the observations which they made nearly so well as were Greek astronomers, such as Eudoxus, Thales, Pythagoras, Hipparchus and many others.

    The Astronomy of the Bible An Elementary Commentary on the Astronomical References of Holy Scripture 1889

  • Cornelius Nepos as their authority, speak of Eudoxus as having circumnavigated Africa from the Red Sea to Cadiz; and Pliny, moreover, tells us that Hanno sailed around that continent as far as

    The Discovery of America Vol. 1 (of 2) with some account of Ancient America and the Spanish Conquest John Fiske 1871

  • Precession was a new phaenomenon, and latins -mainly- viewed it with suspicion since it was not following "the tradition of the older calculations of Eudoxus and Meton" see Columella and Pliny elder.

    Astrologers angered by stars 2011

  • Tonight there are craters galore to explore: Plato, Aristotle, Eudoxus, Archimedes. . .

    Happy Holidays from UT | Universe Today 2009

  • Retrograde motion was only first addressed almost a century after Philolaus by Eudoxus.

    Philolaus Huffman, Carl 2008

  • Eudoxus presumably did not learn his famous hedonism from Archytas (see DK47 A9), and it is specifically geometry that he is said to have studied with Archytas

    Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

  • The only pupil of Archytas who is more than a name, is Eudoxus

    Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

  • Plato then posed the “Delian Problem,” as it came to be known, to mathematicians associated with the Academy, and no less than three solutions were devised, those of Eudoxus, Menaechmus, and Archytas.

    Archytas Huffman, Carl 2007

  • That he might understand the movements of heaven and the stars, Eudoxus grew old upon the summit of a lofty mountain: three times did Chrysippus purge his brain with hellebore, that his faculties might be equal to invention.

    Satyricon 2007

  • Plato, most likely with the help of Eudoxus and others that frequented the Academy, advanced the whole of philosophy further than any man before Aristotle.

    About Aristotle 2007

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