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Britannica 11th

Encyclopaedia Britannica · 11th edition

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Eudoxus, of Cyzicus

Britannica 11th

EUOOXUS, of Cyzicus, Greek navigator, flourished about 130 B.C. He was employed by Ptolemy Euergetes, who sent 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 ob ...

Vol. 9, pp. 882-882 OCR text aligned to scanned pages Relevance 252.0
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Eudoxus

Britannica 11th

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,

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