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EUDOXUS, of Cnidus, Greek savant, nourished about the middle of the 4th century B.C. It is chiefly as an astronomer that his name has come down to us (see ASTRONOMY and ZODIAC). From a life by Diogenes Laertius, we learn that he studied at Athens under Plato, ...

... out a fleet under him to explore the Arabian Sea. After two successful voyages, Eudoxus left the Egyptian service, and proceeded to Cadiz with the object of fitting out an expedition for the purpose of African discovery; and we learn from Strabo, who utilized ...

... anuary, February) the weather is rainy. It is also a constellation mentioned by Eudoxus (4th century B.C.) and Aratus (3rd century B.C.); Ptolemy catalogued forty-five stars, Tycho Brahe forty-one, Hevelius forty-seven. C Aquarii is a well-defined binary, havi ...

... t much from other contemporaries at Athens, especially from astronomers such as Eudoxus and Callippus, and from orators such as Isocratcs and Demosthenes. He also attacked Isocrates, according to Cicero, and perhaps even set up a rival school of rhetoric. At a ...

... owever, the constellations transmitted to the West from Babylonia by Aratus and Eudoxus must have been arranged very much in their present order about 2800 B.C. E. W. Maunder's argument to this effect is unanswerable.4 For the space of the 1 Observations of Co ...

... ance beyond his predecessors (we arc told that " he arranged the discoveries of Eudoxus, perfected those of Theaetetus, and reduced to invincible demonstration many things that had previously been more loosely proved "), for his Elements supplanted all similar ...