Eudoxus

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[yoo-dok-suhs] / yuˈdɒk səs /

noun

1. a crater in the first quadrant of the face of the moon: about 40 miles (64 km) in diameter.

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Example Sentences

At the same time, he must have learnt much from other contemporaries at Athens, especially from astronomers such as Eudoxus and Callippus, and from orators such as Isocrates and Demosthenes.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 2, Slice 5 "Arculf" to "Armour, Philip" by Various

It is probable that Book V of Euclid, which is devoted to proportion, is essentially the work of Eudoxus.

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene

There is good ground therefore for supposing that the first four books of Apollonius’s Conics, which are still extant, resemble Euclid’s Conics even less than Euclid’s Elements do those of Eudoxus and Theaetetus.

From Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 8 "Ethiopia" to "Evangelical Association" by Various

Eudoxus of Cnidus, the contemporary of Plato, placed him still higher; he thought that Zoroaster lived 6000 years before the death of Plato.

From The History of Antiquity Vol. V. by Duncker, Max

The subject is treated by Euclid in his Book V, and an anonymous commentator has told us that it "is the discovery of Eudoxus, the teacher of Plato."

From The Teaching of Geometry by Smith, David Eugene