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Encyclopedia Britannica - Main :: SIV-SOU |
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SOSIGENES , Greek astronomer and mathematician, probably of Alexandria
century B.C. According to Pliny (Nat. Hist. xviii. 25), he was employed by Julius
treatises
doctrine
Mercury round the sun, which is referred to by his contemporary Cicero, and was also held by the Egyptians.The astronomer is to be distinguished from the Peripatetic philosopher of the same name, who lived at the end of the 2nd century A.D. He was the tutor of Alexander of Aphrodisias, the most famous of the commentators on Aristotle
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Spheres
Aristotle
Bordeaux
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