Eudoxus of Cnidus

Eudoxus of Cnidus in Wikipedia

Eudoxus of Cnidus (410 or 408 BC – 355 or 347 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar and student of Plato. Since all his own works are lost, our knowledge of him is obtained from secondary sources, such as Aratus's poem on astronomy. Theodosius of Bithynia's Sphaerics may be based on a work of Eudoxus. Life His name "Eudoxus" means "go...

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Eudoxus in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Εὔδοξος). A celebrated astronomer and geometrician of Cnidus, who flourished B.C. 366. He studied at Athens and in Egypt, but probably spent some of his time at his native place, where he had an observatory. He is said to have been the first who taught in Greece the motions of the planets. His works are lost (Quaest. Nat. vii. 3; Vitruv. ix. 9; Pl...

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