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* Phaenomena, a treatise on spherical astronomy, survives in Greek ; it is quite similar to On the Moving Sphere by Autolycus of Pitane, who flourished around 310 BC.
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Phaenomena and treatise
It accordingly comments on the Sphaerica of Theodosius, the Moving Sphere of Autolycus, Theodosius's book on Day and Night, the treatise of Aristarchus On the Size and Distances of the Sun and Moon, and Euclid's Optics and Phaenomena.
In his Phaenomena, which set to verse an astronomical treatise written by the philosopher Eudoxus in roughly 350 BC, the poet Aratus describes " those five other orbs, that intermingle with constellations and wheel wandering on every side of the twelve figures of the Zodiac.
Aratus wrote the Phaenomena, a poetic version of a treatise on the stars by Eudoxus of Cnidus, who had lived in the 4th century.
Phaenomena and on
* Phaenomena ( Φαινόμενα ) and Entropon ( Ἔντροπον ), on spherical astronomy, probably based on observations made by Eudoxus in Egypt and Cnidus
Newton lists the astronomical observations on which he relies ( in ' The Phaenomena '), and establishes in a stepwise manner that the inverse square law of mutual gravitation applies to solar system bodies, starting with the satellites of Jupiter and going on by stages to show that the law is of universal application.
* Aratus, Greek poet from Soli in Cilicia, best remembered for his poem on astronomy Phaenomena ( b. c. 315 BC )
The anthropomorphisation of Dike as an ever-young woman dwelling in the cities of men was so ancient and strong that in the 3rd century BCE Aratus in Phaenomena 96 asserted that she was born a mortal and that, though Zeus placed her on earth to keep mankind just, he quickly learned this was impossible and placed her next to him on Olympus, as the Greek astronomical / astrological constellation The Maiden.
The Phaenomena appears to be based on two prose works — Phaenomena and Enoptron ( Ἔνοπτρον " Mirror ", presumably a descriptive image of the heavens )— by Eudoxus of Cnidus, written about a century earlier.
In this habit he is known to have been influenced by the pioneering work of the meteorologist Luke Howard on the classification of clouds ; Constable's annotations of his own copy of Researches About Atmospheric Phaenomena by Thomas Forster show him to have been fully abreast of meteorological terminology.
The Suda also ascribes to the author a work on the sphere ( in Greek ), a fragment of which, professing to be an introduction to the Phaenomena of Aratus, may still be extant ( in Greek ).
), Pausanias ( c. 150 AD ), Athenaeus ( c. 200 AD ), Censorinus ( 3rd century AD ), and an anonymous Latin commentator on the Greek poem Phaenomena by Aratus of Soloi ( ca.
* Anonymus I and Anonymus II, the authors of commentaries on the Phaenomena of Aratus
Phaenomena and astronomy
Pappus believed these results to be important in astronomy and included Euclid's Optics, along with his Phaenomena, in the Little Astronomy, a compendium of smaller works to be studied before the Syntaxis ( Almagest ) of Claudius Ptolemy.
Pappus believed these results to be important in astronomy and included Euclid's Optics, along with his Phaenomena, in the Little Astronomy, a compendium of smaller works to be studied before the Syntaxis ( Almagest ) of Ptolemy.
Phaenomena and ;
* Aratus, Phaenomena, 35 ; Hyginus Astronomica, 2.
These have generally been joined together as if parts of the same work ; but they seem to be distinct poems, the first, called Phaenomena (" Appearances "), consists of 732 verses ; the second, Diosemeia (" On Weather Signs "), of 422 verses.
We are told by the biographers of Aratus that it was the desire of Antigonus to have them turned into verse, which gave rise to the Phaenomena of Aratus ; and it appears from the fragments of them preserved by Hipparchus, that Aratus has in fact versified, or closely imitated parts of them both, but especially of the first.
The purpose of the Phaenomena is to give an introduction to the constellations, with the rules for their risings and settings ; and of the circles of the sphere, amongst which the Milky Way is reckoned.
The poet Aratus ( Phaenomena 880 – 891 ) mentions parhelia as part of his catalogue of Weather Signs ; according to him, they can indicate rain, wind, or an approaching storm.
* Book III: Phaenomena, discussing evidence predicted by his model ;
Phaenomena and is
His major extant work is his hexameter poem Phaenomena ( Φαινόμενα " Appearances "), the first half of which is a verse setting of a lost work of the same name by Eudoxus of Cnidus.
Paul, speaking of God, quotes the fifth line of Aratus's Phaenomena ( Epimenides seems to be the source of the first part of Acts 17. 28, although this is less clear ):
Many of the mythic themes in Catasterismi are simply drawn from Aratus, Phaenomena ( ca 275 BCE ) and the sequential arrangement is essentially that of Aratus as well.
Phaenomena and by
His catalogue Phaenomena, rewritten by Aratus of Soli between 275 and 250 BC as a didactic poem, became one of the most consulted astronomical texts in antiquity and beyond.
We are fairly well informed about the contents of Phaenomena, for Eudoxus ' prose text was the basis for a poem of the same name by Aratus.
Hipparchus ( about a century later ), who was a scientific astronomer and observer, has left a commentary upon the Phaenomena of Eudoxus and Aratus, accompanied by the discrepancies which he had noticed between his own observations and their descriptions.
Phaenomena and who
* Aratus, who wrote the Phaenomena and other poems
Phaenomena and BC
* Aratus ' Phaenomena ( c. 240 BC ), a poem partially concerned with unusual manifestations of weather as signs from the Gods
Phaenomena and .
27 ) apparently compared Aratus ' Phaenomena.
His most important geological essay was entitled " Conjectures concerning the Cause and Observations upon the Phaenomena of Earthquakes " ( Philosophical Transactions, li.
* Conjectures Concerning the Cause and Observations upon the Phaenomena of Earthquakes, ibid.
Phaenomena.
treatise and on
The next traditional step then was to accept it as the authoritative textbook of the Christian faith just as one would accept a treatise on any earthly `` science '', and I submitted to its conditions according to Christ's invitation and promise that, `` If any man will do his will, he shall know of the doctrine, whether it be of God, or whether I speak of myself '' ( John 7: 17 ).
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