Andronicus of Cyrrhus ( Greek: Ανδρόνικος Κυρρήστου ) or Andronicus Cyrrhestes, son of Hermias, was a Greek astronomer who flourished about 100 BC.

* Andronicus of Cyrrhus ( c. 100 BC ), Greek astronomer

Archimedes of Syracuse (; BC – BC ) was a Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer.

Most of the brighter stars were assigned their first systematic names by the German astronomer Johann Bayer in 1603, in his star atlas Uranometria ( named after Urania, the Greek Muse of Astronomy, along with Uranus, the Greek god of the sky and heavens ).

Ptolemy's catalogue is informed by Eudoxus of Cnidus, a Greek astronomer of the 4th century BC who introduced earlier Babylonian astronomy to the Hellenistic culture.

When the Greek astronomer Ptolemy's Almagest was translated from Greek to Arabic, the translator Johannitius ( following Alberuni ) did not know the Greek word and rendered it as the nearest-looking Arabic word, writing العصى ذات الكلاب in ordinary unvowelled Arabic text " al -` aşā dhāt al-kullāb ", which means " the spearshaft having a hook ".

Hipparchus of Nicaea, or more correctly Hipparchos (; c. 190 BC – c. 120 BC ), was a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician of the Hellenistic period.

In 270 BC the Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos ( c. 310 – c.

The first documented systematic technique capable of determining integrals is the method of exhaustion of the ancient Greek astronomer Eudoxus ( ca.

Although the hare does not represent any particular figure in Greek mythology, Lepus was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.

* 1943 – Dionysis Simopoulos, Greek physicist and astronomer

The only Greek Babylonian astronomer known to have supported a heliocentric model of planetary motion was Seleucus of Seleucia ( b. 190 BC ).

The Greek astronomer Meton of Athens observed that a period of 19 years is almost exactly equal to 235 synodic months, and rounded to full days counts 6940 days.

Taking a different view from other modern scholars, Ulansey argues that the Mithraic mysteries began in the Greco-Roman world as a religious response to the discovery by the Greek astronomer Hipparchus of the astronomical phenomenon of the precession of the equinoxes – a discovery that amounted to discovering that the entire cosmos was moving in a hitherto unknown way.

That daily tides should be caused by full moons and new moons is manifestly wrong, which would be a surprising view in a Greek astronomer and mathematician of the times.

He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet of a single epigram in the Greek Anthology.

The Greek astronomer and astrologer Hipparchus ( 190 – 120 BCE ) created a table of chord functions giving the length of the chord for each angle, and there are references to his using polar coordinates in establishing stellar positions.

The German astronomer Johann Bayer created a series of star maps and applied Greek letters as designations to the stars in each constellation.

An illustration of the Perseus ( constellation ) | Perseus constellation ( after Perseus from Greek mythology ) from the star catalogue published by the German astronomer Johannes Hevelius in 1690

The Greek astronomer Aristarchus of Samos was the first known individual to propose a heliocentric model of the universe.

Andronicus or Andronikos is a classical Greek name ( Ανδρόνικος ), from the Gr. words " andras ", ( Gr. άνδρας ), i. e. man and " Nike " ( Gr. Νίκη ), i. e. victory.

* Andronicus of Rhodes ( c. 70 BC ), Greek philosopher

The adaptor was Livius Andronicus, a Greek who had been brought to Rome as a prisoner of war in 272 BC.

Andronicus also translated Homer's Greek epic the Odyssey into an old type of Latin verse called Saturnian.

In addition, we have to thank him for such copious quotations from the Greek commentaries from the time of Andronicus of Rhodes down to Ammonius and Damascius, that, for the Categories and the Physics, the outlines of a history of the interpretation and criticism of those books may be composed.

The Camenae were later identified with the Greek Muses ; in his translation of Homer's Odyssey, Livius Andronicus rendered the Greek word Mousa as Camena.

By Andronicus ' age, the folk-etymology deduction from monēre prevailed, and so he could transform this epithet into a separate goddess, the literary ( but not religious ) counterpart of Greek Mnemosyne.

* Marcus Livius Salinator, recipient or purchaser of Andronicus, an educated Greek, immediately after the fall of Tarentum to Rome in 272 BC, and decemvir in 236 BC

Gregoras remained loyal to the elder Andronicus to the last, but after his death he succeeded in gaining the favour of his grandson, by whom he was appointed to conduct the unsuccessful negotiations ( for a union of the Greek and Latin churches ) with the ambassadors of Pope John XXII ( 1333 ).

Andronicus is the Latinization of a Greek name, which was held by a number of Greek historical figures of the period.

It is generally considered that Andronicus came from his Greek name and that Livius, a name originally local to Latium, was the gentilicium, the family name, of his patron ( patronus ).

Andronikos IV Palaiologos ( or Andronicus IV Palaeologus ) ( Greek: Ανδρόνικος Δ ' Παλαιολόγος, Andronikos IV Paleologos ) ( 2 April 1348 – 28 June 1385 ) was Byzantine Emperor from 1376 to 1379.

Thoros ’ s brother, Stephen, ignoring Thoros ’ s official pledges to Manuel, with the help of a few of his supporters continued attacking Greek garrisons thus giving Andronicus Euphorbenus, the Byzantine governor stationed in Tarsus, the opportunity to sabotage the treaty.

Thoros, who had his own reasons for desiring Stephen ’ s murder, accused of Andronicus Euphorbenus of complicity and swept down on Mamistra, Anazarbus and Vahka, surprising and murdering the Greek garrisons.

Also, a Greek astronomer, Andronicus of Cyrrhus, supervised the construction of his Horologion, known today as the Tower of the Winds, in the Athens marketplace ( or agora ) in the first half of the 1st century BCE.

The united forces met little resistance in the eastern Serbian lands-the Greek squadrons were fighting among themselves as the local Byzantine commanders: Alexios Brannes supported the new Emperor, while Andronicus Lapardes opposed him-and deserted the Imperial Army, going onto adventures on his own.

The verse comedies of Plautus are the earliest Latin literature that has survived, composed around 205-184 BC, yet the start of Latin literature is conventionally dated to the first performance of a play in verse by a Greek slave, Livius Andronicus, at Rome in 240 BC.

( also rendered as I. I. E. K, where first ' I ' stands for Greek: Ιδιωτικό, Private ) recognized by the Ministry of Education and Religious Affairs and supervised / controlled by O. E. E. K ..

In the 2000 – 01 season, the club was, amazingly, supervised by five different managers and had to deal with a scandal that involved two players ( Brazilian Alex Dias and Ukrainian goalkeeper Maksym Levytsky ) who utilized fake Portuguese and Greek passports.

The state issued textbook was later removed in 2007 by the Greek Government, after the Athens Academy, a Legal Entity of Public Law supervised by the Ministry of National Education and Religion, as well as a number of Greek historians and intellectuals also criticised the book for historical inaccuracies.

An inscription from the island of Cos, dated to the First Mithridatic War, provides us with a list of a ship's officers, the nautae: the gubernator ( kybernētēs in Greek ) was the helmsman or pilot, the celeusta ( keleustēs in Greek ) supervised the rowers, a proreta ( prōreus in Greek ) was the look-out stationed at the bow, a pentacontarchos was apparently a junior officer, and an iatros ( Lat.

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