Autolycus of Pitane
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ancient Greek mathematician
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Pitane
- Occupation
- astronomer
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Native language
- Ancient Greek
- Field of work
- mathematics
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- date of birth
- 0315-00-00
- date of death
- 0240-00-00
- name in native language
- Αυτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναίος
- described by source
- Encyclopædia Britannica 11th edition
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
- Commons category
- Autolycus of Pitane
- maintained by WikiProject
- WikiProject Mathematics
- birth name
- Αυτόλυκος
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Encyclopedic overview
De sphaera quae movetur liber Autolycus of Pitane (Greek: Αὐτόλυκος ὁ Πιταναῖος; c. 360 – c. 290 BC) was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. He is known today for his two surviving works On the Moving Sphere and On Risings and Settings, both about spherical geometry.
Life
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