may be visible when the Sun is below the horizon. Cleomedes is now memorialized by the crater Cleomedes in the northeastern portion of the visible Moon...
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Cleomedes to popularise the discovery. Cleomedes invites his reader to consider two Egyptian cities, Alexandria and Syene (modern Assuan): Cleomedes assumes...
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is Delmotte. North of Cleomedes is a triple-crater formation with Burckhardt occupying the center. The outer wall of Cleomedes is heavily worn and eroded...
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through it (the Earth) extending through the middle of the sky" Cleomedes (2004). Cleomedes' Lectures on Astronomy: A Translation of The Heavens. Translated...
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armillary sphere. In On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies, Cleomedes credited him with having calculated the Earth's circumference around 240...
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BCE) 7′ 490 0.021 -97.9% Posidonius (1st century BCE) (quoted by coeval Cleomedes) 21″ 10,000 0.426 -57.4% Ptolemy (2nd century) 2′ 50″ 1,210 0.052 -94...
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fragments of his writings on astronomy survive through the treatise by Cleomedes, On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies, the first chapter of...
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King Vologases IV of Parthia puts down the rebellion and restores order. Cleomedes teaches that the moon does not glow on its own, but rather reflects sunlight...
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Eratosthenes Hipparchus Hypsicles Pytheas Seleucus Timocharis Agrippa Andronicus Cleomedes Geminus Hephaestio Macrobius Martianus Capella Menelaus Porphyry Posidonius...
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born twenty years later) Chaereleos Charicles, son of Apollodorus Chremo Cleomedes, son of Lycomedes Critias Diocles Dracontides Erasistratus of Acharnae...
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