Eudoxus of Cnidus (c. 400-c. 347 BC)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3609. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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Greek astronomer, mathematician, born in Cnidus (on the Resadiye peninsula, now Turkey). First astronomer to produce a detailed description of the stars and constellations. His work is now lost but known through the extensive borrowing by ARATUS in his Phenomena. Proposed a geocentric system for the solar system in which the Sun, Moon and planets moved on spheres centered on the Earth. The model ...

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