Aglaonike (c. 200 BC)

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Nov 2000

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"Encyclopedia of Astronomy and Astrophysics, Edited by Paul Murdin, article 3401. Bristol: Institute of Physics Publishing, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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History And Archaeoastronomy, Biographies

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A natural philosopher of ancient Greece, she is referred to as a sorceress who could make the Moon disappear at will. She might therefore be regarded as the first recorded woman astronomer in that she seems to have mastered the art of predicting lunar eclipses, presumably by knowledge of the Metonic cycle, by which lunar eclipses repeat themselves every 19 years. The cycle was discovered in the f...

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