Dionysodorus
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Dionysodorus of Caunus (, c. 250 BC – c. 190 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician.
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Dionysodorus of Caunus (, c. 250 BC – c. 190 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician.
== Life and work == Little is known about the life of Dionysodorus. Pliny the Elder writes about a Dionysodorus who measured the Earth's circumference, however he is probably the one from Melos and different both from the one from Caunus and from Dionysodorus of Amisene; Strabo differentiates between the latter two mathematicians.
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