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	Amber Jewelry (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Another ancient belief holds that the rays of a brilliantly setting sun became congealed in an evening sea and were cast upon the shore in the form of amber.
		However, in about 240 BC, Sudines, an astrologer who lived at the court of Attalus I of Pergamum, wrote a treatise on the mystical properties of gemstones.
		He wrote that amber is the product of a tree that grows in Liguria, a tree known as the "lynx".
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	Kidinnu, the Chaldaeans, and ancient Babylonian astronomy
		For example, some are called Orcheni [those from Uruk], others Borsippeni [those from Borsippa], and several others by different names, as though divided into different sects which hold to various different dogmas about the same subjects.
		And the mathematicians make mention of some of these men; as, for example, Cidenas [Kidinnu], Naburianus [Nabû-rîmannu] and Sudines.
		If this identification is correct, the inventor of System-B must have been an old man when he was executed.
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	Sudines Details, Meaning Sudines Article and Explanation Guide
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		He is also said to have been one of the first to assign astrological meaning to gemstones.
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	Written in the Stars Shangrila Publications Zodiac Mosaic Book by Lester Ness (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		But until some of these hypothetical documents are discovered, the theory remains only an intriguing possibility./15/ We do know of one Mesopotamian scholar, Berossos, a priest of Bel, who moved to Greece, settling on the island of Kos in the mid-third century BCE.
		We do know of others who worked as professional diviners at Hellenistic courts, such as Sudines at Pergamon in the generation after Berossos./20/ But despite horoscopy's Mesopotamian origins, the distinctively Hellenistic version of horoscopy seems to have been formulated, not in Mesopotamia, but in Hellenistic Egypt.
		Alexandria, the capital of the Ptolemaic dynasty ruling Egypt, was the greatest economic and intellectual center of the Hellenistic world, and the Ptolemies promoted scientific research.
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	Sketches in the History of Western Philosophy
		An important aspect of Hellenistic thought was the degree to which Greek culture began to mix with that of the older civilizations in the Middle East.
		Manethô introduced the system, still used, of numbering the dynasties of ancient Egyptian kings; and Sudinês, translating older astronomical texts, including those of the named astronomer Kidinnu, provided invaluable astronomical data all the way back to the beginning of the reign of the Babylonian King Nabonassar (Nabûnâs.iru) in 747 BC [6].
		The works of both Sudinês and Manethô continued up through the Roman period to be of great interest to historians and astronomers, but unfortunately complete texts of neither work survive.
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	Kidinnu and ancient Babylonian astronomy
		Besides, one would expect an earlier date, because System-B originated almost half a century earlier.
		It has been argued that the 'Sudines' mentioned by Strabo is responsible for the translation of Kidinnu's work into Greek.
		It is tempting to connect this hypothesis with the fact that Alexander the Great had the Babylonian astronomical diaries translated, but it is probably better to resist this temptation.
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	Gemstones: Diamond, Emeralds, Sapphire, Topaz, Chrysoberyl, Carbuncle, Jaspis (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		When looked at carefully it has a dull, shallow and false luster.
		According to Pliny it is found in India, according to Juba in Ethiopia and according to Sudines along the Severus river in Attica.
		The callais or augites gem is of less value than the topazius, according to Pliny, who has written in detail regarding it.
	www.farlang.com /gemstones/agricola_textbook_of_mineralogy/page_141 (592 words)

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		They rather about the cape of Actium are better, and yet they be but little ones: like as they also which are taken in the coasts of Mauritania.
		Alexander Polyhistor, and Sudines, are of opinion that they will age, and in the end loose their colour.
		That they be solide and not hollow within, is evident by this, that with no fall they will breake.
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	Hipparchus astronomer infoTurkish.com Herşey Hakkında Türkçe Bilgi
		Also it is known that the Babylonian priest known as Berossus wrote around 281 BC a book in Greek on the (rather mythological) history of Babylonia, the Babyloniaca, for the new ruler Antiochus I; it is said that later he founded a school of astrology on the Greek island of Kos.
		Another candidate for teaching the Greeks about Babylonian astronomy/astrology was Sudines who was at the court of Attalus I Soter late in the 3rd century BC.
		In any case, the translation of the astronomical records required profound knowledge of the cuneiform script, the language, and the procedures, so it seems likely that it was done by some unidentified Chaldeans.
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		Fortune here, beyond all expectation of men, favoured this bold attempt of his and in a battle he fought and defeated them.''
		in Attalo) told of a scheme which Sudines, a Chaldaean soothsayer, used to enliven his soldiers for this fight when they were quite dispirited.
		Sudines was that Babylonian mathematician whom we find mentioned by Strabo.
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	Chatka Szydercy - Strategia - Frontinius (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		When the steaming liver had received the impress of these characters and had been displayed by the king to the soldiers, the circumstances raised their spirits, since they thought that the god gave them assurance of victory.
		The soothsayer Sudines did the same thing when Eumenes was about to engage in battle with the Gauls.
		Agesilaus, the Spartan, on one occasion captured certain Persians.
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		Planets are big balls of ice, rock, metal, and other astrology australia stuff.
		Some astrology australia of the prominent astrologers of this period were Kiddinu, Berossus, Antipatrus, Achinopoulus, and Sudines.
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	Agricola Mineralogy Textbook: (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-24)
		Others who have written about stones are Socrates Rhodius, Xenocrates, Sudines, Callistratus, Megasthenes, Ismenias, Horus, Satyrus, Archelaus, Bocchus, Nicander, Jacchus, Juba, Zactalias, Agatharchides Samius, Thrasyllus Mendesius, Heraclitus Sicyonius, Nicias Maleotes, Dorotheus Chaldaeus, Theophilus, Dercyllus, Dionysius Afer, Diogenes, Orpheus, Epiphanius, and Didymus Alexandrinus.
		Each of these wrote so much concerning marbles that it is most surprising that some wrote only about gems.
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