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Eudoxus of Cnidus
Eudoxus of Cnidus
(; ,
Eúdoxos ho Knídios
; 408–355 BC) was a
Greek
astronomer
,
mathematician
, scholar and student of
Plato
. All of his works are lost, though some fragments are preserved in
Hipparchus
' commentary on
Aratus
's poem on
astronomy
.
Theodosius of Bithynia
's important work,
Sphaerics
, may be based on a work of Eudoxus.
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