Eudoxus
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One that Ptolemy was the author of was founded on data derived from ancient observers—Callipus, Democritus, Eudoxus, Hipparchus—aided by his own calculations.
From Astronomical Myths Based on Flammarions's History of the Heavens by Blake, John F.
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 Todd, David Peck
It was because of this that Eudoxus worked out a theory of geometric proportion that was independent of number as an expression of ratio.
From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene
Pythagoras is said to have been the first to describe the earth as a sphere, and this view was adopted by Eudoxus and Aristotle.
From Development of Gravity Pendulums in the 19th Century Contributions from the Museum of History and Technology, Papers 34-44 On Science and Technology, Smithsonian Institution, 1966 by Lenzen, Victor Fritz
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 Blake, John F.
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