(from the article `Euclid`) Among Euclid`s extant works are the Optics, the first Greek treatise on perspective, and the Phaenomena, an introduction to mathematical astronomy. ...
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(from the article `Eudoxus of Cnidus`) In two works, Phaenomena and Mirror, Eudoxus described constellations schematically, the phases of fixed stars (the dates when they are visible), and ...
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(from the article `astronomical map`) The earliest systematic account of the constellations is contained in the Phaenomena of Aratus, a poet of the 3rd century , who described 43 ... Greek poet of Soli in Cilicia, best remembered for his poem on astronomy, Phaenomena.The desire to combine learning with poetry led to the revival of didac...
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