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Flourished c.1 - 100
Notable Works “Sphaerica”
Subjects Of Study sphere • spherical triangle

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Archimedes
Archimedes
Greek mathematician
Six astronomers, after Gerard Hoet (1692)
Hipparchus
Greek astronomer
Euclid
Euclid
Greek mathematician
How did Ptolemy explain retrograde motion?
Ptolemy
Egyptian astronomer, mathematician, and geographer
Diophantus
Greek mathematician
Eudoxus of Cnidus
Greek mathematician and astronomer
Apollonius of Perga
Greek mathematician
Pappus of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
Heron of Alexandria
Greek mathematician
Zeno of Elea
Greek philosopher and mathematician
Archytas of Tarentum
Greek mathematician
Maximus Planudes
Byzantine scholar and theologian
Hippocrates of Chios
Greek mathematician
Sosigenes of Alexandria
Greek astronomer and mathematician
Carathéodory, Constantin
Constantin Carathéodory
Greek-German mathematician
Conon of Samos
Greek mathematician
Pythagoras
Greek philosopher and mathematician
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Nicomachus of Gerasa
Roman philosopher and mathematician
Theaetetus
Greek mathematician
Menaechmus
Greek mathematician

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