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	Autolycus of Pitane - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		He was born in Pitane, a town of Aeolis, in Asia Minor.
		Autolycus' surviving works include a book on spheres (called On the Moving Sphere) and another on the rising and setting of celestial bodies.
		In astronomy, Autolycus studied the relationship between the rising and the setting of the celestial bodies, and wrote that "any star which rises and sets always rises and sets at the same point in the horizon."
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Autolycus_of_Pitane (216 words)

	Autolycus (crater) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Autolycus is a lunar impact crater that is located in the southeast part of Mare Imbrium.
		Just to the north is the Aristillus crater, and the outer ramparts of these two craters overlap in the intermediate stretch of the lunar mare.
		The rim of Autolycus is somewhat irregular, although generally circular overall.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Autolycus_(crater) (205 words)

	Autolycus of Pitane - LoveToKnow 1911 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		AUTOaYCUS OF PITANE, Greek mathematician and astronomer, probably flourished in the second half of the 4th century B.C., since he is said to have instructed Arcesilaus.
		The former treatise is historically interesting for the light it throws on the development which the geometry of the sphere had already reached even before Autolycus and Euclid (see THEODOSrus OF Tripolis).
		There are several aatin versions of Autolycus, a French translation by Forcadel (1572), and an admirable edition of the Greek text with aatin translation by F. Hultsch (aeipzig, 1885).
	www.1911encyclopedia.org /Autolycus_Of_Pitane (164 words)

	Autolycus
		This means that a theorem in Autolycus's work has first a general statement, then a construction related to a particular figure with points in the figure denoted by letters, comes the demonstration of the theorem, and finally a conclusion relating to the general statement is sometimes drawn.
		Another important fact regarding Autolycus is that two of his books have survived in the original Greek and we believe that they are the earliest two mathematics works to have survived.
		That Autolycus relys heavily on Eudoxus for his view of astronomy is not in doubt.
	www.educ.fc.ul.pt /icm/icm2003/icm14/Autolycus.htm (746 words)

	Autolycus Did You Mean autolycus
		Autolycus is also a character played by Bruce Campbell in Hercules: the Legendary Journeys and Xena: Warrior Princess who styles himself "the King of Thieves".
		Autolycus may refer to Autolycus of Pitane, a Greek mathematician.
		The lunar crater Autolycus, which is named after Autolycus of Pitane.
	www.did-you-mean.com /Autolycus.html (194 words)

	AUTOLYCUS - Online Information article about AUTOLYCUS
		cattle, suspected Autolycus of being the thief, but was unable to bring it See also:
		It is said that on this occasion Sisyphus seduced Autolycus's daughter Anticleia, and that Odysseus was really the son of Sisyphus, not of Laertes, whom Anticleia afterwards married.
		Autolycus is also said to have instructed Heracles in the See also:
	encyclopedia.jrank.org /AUD_BAI/AUTOLYCUS.html (274 words)

	Autolycus biography
		In fact I see no reason why Euclid (presumably in Alexandria) and Autolycus (presumably in Athens) should not have written independently, and perhaps even simultaneously, on the mathematical theory of astronomical phenomena.
		The priority argument is certainly not an unimportant one for the interdependence of Euclid and Autolycus on each other is significant since Autolycus writes his propositions in exactly the same general style as Euclid.
		This means that a theorem in Autolycus's work has first a general statement, then a construction related to a particular figure with points in the figure denoted by letters, next comes the demonstration of the theorem, and finally a conclusion relating to the general statement is sometimes drawn.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /~history/Biographies/Autolycus.html (896 words)

	Autolycus of Pitane
		Born in Pitane, in the Asia Minor region of Aeolis, Autolycus wrote two treatises on mathematical astronomy, which are considered the oldest known works on the subject.
		The first work of one book, called, in English translation, On the movement of the sphere, concerns spherical astronomy, and spherical revolutions and axes in connection with geographical latitude.
		Autolycus was cited by Diogenes Laertius and Francesco Maurolico translated his works in the sixteenth century.
	www.mlahanas.de /Greeks/Bios/AutolycusOfPitane.html (209 words)

	Greek For Euclid
		In addition to the Elements, the name of Euclid is also attached to a number of other mathematical works, among which is the Phaenomena, the faino/mena, or appearances, which describes the diurnal motion of the fixed stars and the ecliptic, the path of the planets.
		Autolycus α' is given in the scholia to the Phaenomena as the source of the solution.
		In the present case, the upper view is the one shown in the Phaenomena, the circle representing the horizon, as was usually done.
	www.du.edu /~etuttle/classics/nugreek/lesson25.htm (1461 words)

	Autolycus - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-30)
		BC, astronomer and mathematician of Pitane in Aeolis.
		Of his two extant works, that on the revolving sphere is said to be the oldest completely preserved Greek treatise on a mathematical subject.
		Autolycus Corp. specializes in 3-D imaging software.(Product Announcement)
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/a/autolycu.asp (210 words)

	References for Autolycus
		Autolycus of Pitane, On the moving sphere and on risings and settings (Beirut, 1971).
		G Aujac, Autolycos de Pitané, prédécesseur d'Euclide, in Proceedings of the seminar on the history of mathematics 5 (Paris, 1984), 1-12.
		O Schmidt, Some critical remarks about Autolycus' On risings and settings, in Den 11te Skandinaviske Matematikerkongress, Trondheim1949 (Oslo, 1952), 202-209.
	www-history.mcs.st-andrews.ac.uk /References/Autolycus.html (96 words)

	BookRags: Autolycus of Pitane Summary
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		It is possible that the first of these was based on a now-lost geometry textbook by Eudoxus of Cnidus (c.
		Autolycus of Pitane from Science and Its Times.
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	Autolycus - OneLook Dictionary Search
		Autolycus : E Cobham Brewer, The Reader's Handbook [home, info]
		AUTOLYCUS : 1911 edition of the Encyclopedia Britannica [home, info]
		Phrases that include Autolycus: autolycus of pitane, autolycus in greek mythology
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	Euclid - Crystalinks
		Euclid's Phaenomena is a tract on sphaeric, the study of spherical geometry for the purpose of explaining planetary motions.
		It survives in Greek and is quite similar to On the Moving Sphere, by Autolycus of Pitane, who flourished around 310 B.C. However, the propositions of Autolycus are more abstract than those of Euclid, who uses the convenient astronomical terms horizon and circle of the zodiac in his presentation.
		The former work also exhibits the ``classical'' Greek form - discussed in section III below - found in all of Euclid's treatises, demonstrating that this style of presentation was not original with Euclid, but was established before his time.
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	AUTOLYCUS OF PITANE - Online Information article about AUTOLYCUS OF PITANE
		AUTOLYCUS OF PITANE - Online Information article about AUTOLYCUS OF PITANE
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		There are several Latin versions of Autolycus, a See also:
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	TMTh:: AUTOLYCUS OF PITANE
		One of the most eminent of the ancient Greek scientists, Autolycus was born in Pitane, in Aeolis (Asia Minor).
		Two of his surviving works (extant in Greek, Latin and Arabic) are the oldest known treatises on astronomy.
		One of the three biggest craters on the moon (above the "Apennines" north of the centre of the moon) has been named "Autolycus" in his honour.
	www.tmth.edu.gr /en/aet/1/19.html (203 words)

	Science Timeline
		About 310 bce, Autolycus of Pitane defined uniform motion as being when "a point is said to be moved with equal movement when it traverses equal and similar quantities in equal times" (Clagett 1959:164).
		About 300 bce, Eukleides, better known as Euclid, published his Elements, a reorganized compilation of geometrical proofs including new proofs and a much earlier essay on the foundations of arithmetic.
		By 1175, Gerard of Cremona had translated from Arabic into Latin most of Aristotle's work as well as Ptolemy's Almagest, Autolycus of Pitane's De spera mota, Avicenna's Canon, al-Kindi's treatise on optics, and some of Rhazes' medical books.
	www.sciencetimeline.net /prehistory.htm (6591 words)

	An Objection to the Theory of Concentric Circles
		What need is there for me to mention the generality of these, some of which, after Eudoxus had failed to account for them, Callippus tried to save – if indeed we can regard him as so far successful?
		I confine myself to one fact which is actually evident to the eye; this fact no one before Autolycus of Pitane even tried to explain by means of hypotheses, and not even Autolycus was able to do so, as clearly appears from his controversy with Aristotherus.
		I refer to the fact that the planets appear at times to be near to us and at times to have receded.
	homepages.wmich.edu /~mcgrew/simp.htm (410 words)

	Who was Euclid ?
		Euclid's lived from 325 BCE to around 265 BCE.
		His contemporaries included Eretosthenese, Eudemus of Rhodes, Autolycus of Pitane.
		He was too young to have studied with Plato, but many of Plato's students lived at the same time as Euclid.
	www.e271.net /~marina/euclid.html (2339 words)

	Islam.com - Messages
		Many Greek Mathematical works found their way into Arabic through the efforts of the scholars at the House Of Wisdom and their successors.
		Euclid, Apolonius of Perga, Nichomachus of Gerasa - The magnificent classical ruin presently called Jerash, in Jordan - Menelaus, Archimedes and Theodosius of Tripoli well all translated at an early date, as where works by astronomers like Ptolemy, Autolycus, Dorotheus, Aristarchus, Hipparchus, Theon of Alexandria, Aratus and Geminus of Rhodes.
		A Number of these works were later translated into Latin and Hebrew and thus became Known to the Medieval Europe, who led to the Renaissances of Europe.
	www.islam.com /all-replies.asp?id=91546&ct=2&mn=91546 (16584 words)

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