Eudoxus
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And in this we merely harmonize educational progress with world progress, for the numerical theory of proportion long preceded the theory of Eudoxus.
From The Teaching of Geometry by David Eugene Smith
Such, for instance, as that Eudoxus first constructed it in the thirteenth or fourteenth century B.C., or that by Clement of Alexandria, that Chiron was the originator.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by John F. Blake
For Eudoxus has stated that the spheres with their deferents are not more than three and twenty in number.
From The gradual acceptance of the Copernican theory of the universe by Dorothy Stimson
In astronomy Eudoxus is famous for the beautiful theory of concentric spheres which he invented to explain the apparent motions of the planets, and, particularly, their apparent stationary points and retrogradations.
From Archimedes Men of Science by Thomas Little Heath
The system of spheres of Eudoxus did not satisfy him, so he devised a method of representing the paths of the heavenly bodies by perfectly uniform motion in circles.
From Astronomy: The Science of the Heavenly Bodies by David Peck Todd
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