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- Lighthouse of Alexandria (3491 bytes)
7: ...x was positioned a [[mirror]] which reflected [[sunlight]] during the day; a [[fire]] was lit at night...
9: ... they could reach shore. However, this is highly unlikely due to the lack of modern optics and reflect...
17: ...y. The [[lighthouse]] was built by [[Sostratus of Cnidus]] in the [[3rd century BC]], the project having b... - Agatharchides (3646 bytes)
1: ... known as the author of a number of works, which only survive in quotation.
3: As Stanley M. Burstein notes, the "evidence for Agatharchi...
9: ...urope'' ("''Ta kata ten Europen''") in 49 books, only a few fragments survive, too few to provide us w...
13: ...s Issued by the Hakluyt Society: Agatharchides of Cnidus, On the Erythraean Sea.'' Second series, no. 172.... - Agesilaus II (5597 bytes)
10: ...d the supreme command, was totally defeated off [[Cnidus]]
31: His daughter [[Cynisca]] became the only woman in ancient history to win at the [[ancient... - Galileo Galilei (33761 bytes)
24: ...geocentric model]] of [[Ptolemy]] predicted that only crescent and new phases would be seen, since Ven...
39: ...esis that objects "naturally" slow down and stop unless a force acts upon them. This principle was inc...
41: ...ieved this equality of period to be exact, it is only an approximation appropriate to small amplitudes...
43: ...time greater than when he and the assistant were only a few yards apart. While he could reach no concl...
53: ...d's Elements]]. This theory had become available only a century before, thanks to accurate translation... - Rhodes (9349 bytes)
5: ...west of [[Turkey]], situated between the Greek mainland and the island of [[Cyprus]]. Its population i...
17: ...os]], [[Cnidus]] and [[Halicarnassus]] (on the mainland) made up the so-called [[Dorian Hexapolis]]. - Archimedes (13735 bytes)
8: ...s and very close to shore for them to ignite, an unlikely scenario during a battle.
12: ...nd 3 + 10/71. He was the first, and possibly the only, [[ancient Greece|Greek]] mathematician to intro...
24: ...les, [[paraboloid]]s, and [[hemisphere]]s. Using only [[ancient Greece|ancient Greek]] [[geometry]], h...
26: ...orrery]]). He credits [[Thales]] and [[Eudoxus of Cnidus|Eudoxus]] for constructing these devices. For som...
28: ...ysis]] had been carried out successfully. We can only speculate about the effect that the "method" wou... - List of mathematicians (37424 bytes)
17: *[[Lars Ahlfors|Lars Valerian Ahlfors]] (Finland, [[1907]] - [[1996]])
237: *[[Eudoxus of Cnidus]] (Asia Minor, circa [[400s BC|408 B.C.]] - circa...
443: *[[Ernst Leonard Lindel? (Finland, [[1870]] - [[1946]])
528: *[[Rolf Nevanlinna]] (Finland, [[1895]] - [[1980]])
555: *[[Paul Painlev靝 (France, [[1863]] - [[1933]]) - List of astronomers (40322 bytes)
194: *[[Eudoxus of Cnidus|Eudoxus]] ([[Cnidus]], circa [[408 BC]] – circa [[347 BC]])
437: *[[Liisi Oterma]] ([[Finland]], [[1915]] – [[2001]])
465: *[[John Stanley Plaskett]] ([[Canada]], [[1865]] – [[1941...
523: *[[Frederick Hanley Seares]] ([[United States|USA]], [[1873]] &ndas...
598: *[[Yrj?is䬤]] ([[Finland]], [[1891]] – [[1971]]) - List of philosophers (79981 bytes)
214: *[[Anicius Manlius Severinus Bo봨ius]], (AD 480-524 or 525){{fn|...
313: *[[Stanley Cavell]], (born 1926){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}{{fn|R}}
520: *[[Eudoxus of Cnidus]], (410 or 408 BC - 355 or 347 BC){{fn|C}}{{fn|R}...
859: *[[William Stanley Jevons]], (1835-1882){{fn|C}}{{fn|O}}
1061: *[[Philipp Mainl䮤er]] - Hipparchus (astronomer) (50785 bytes)
4: ...rk: although Hipparchus wrote at least 14 books, only his commentary on the popular astronomical poem ...
20: ...pparently mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His fam...
32: ...tributed to [[Kidinnu]]). Apparently Hipparchus only confirmed the validity of the periods he learned...
51: ...ous amount of computation required, this is very unlikely. Rather, Hipparchus would have made a list ...
105: ... days 5 hours 48 min 45 s by only about 6 min). - Hipparchus (50784 bytes)
3: ...rk: although Hipparchus wrote at least 14 books, only his commentary on the popular astronomical poem ...
19: ...pparently mentioned about 14 books, but which is only known from references by later authors. His fam...
31: ...tributed to [[Kidinnu]]). Apparently Hipparchus only confirmed the validity of the periods he learned...
50: ...ous amount of computation required, this is very unlikely. Rather, Hipparchus would have made a list ...
104: ... days 5 hours 48 min 45 s by only about 6 min).
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