Eudoxus of cyzicus biography of william shakespeare

          Mathematician and astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus was a younger contemporary of Plato and an older contemporary of Aristotle....

          Biography of Homer cf.

        1. Biography of Homer cf.
        2. Life adventures of Eudoxus of Cyzicus ().
        3. Mathematician and astronomer Eudoxus of Cnidus was a younger contemporary of Plato and an older contemporary of Aristotle.
        4. A story related by Strabo (d.
        5. We do not know whether this crisis is to be linked with the nearby school of Cyzicus, founded by Eudoxus of Cnidus.

          6. Eudoxus of Cyzicus

          Eudoxus of Cyzicus

          Bornfl. c. 130 BC

          Cyzicus, Ancient Greece

          DiedUnknown
          OccupationNavigator
          Known forVoyages to India, African circumnavigation attempt

          Eudoxus of Cyzicus (/ˈjuːdəksəs/; Greek: Εὔδοξος ὁ Κυζικηνός, Eúdoxos ho Kyzikēnós; fl.

          c.

          The man's name is Helicon, and he was born at Cyzicus; he studied with [the famous astronomer] Eudoxus and is well trained in all his teacher's doctrines.

          130 BC) was a Greek navigator who explored the Arabian Sea and the Indian Ocean under the service of Ptolemy VIII, king of the Hellenistic Ptolemaic dynasty in Egypt.[1]

          Voyages to India

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          According to Poseidonius, as later reported in Strabo's Geography,[2] Eudoxus of Cyzicus was one of the first Greek navigators to sail across the Indian Ocean using the monsoon wind system.

          The first of his two voyages to India took place in 118 BC and was guided by an Indian sailor who had been rescued in the Red Sea and taken to Ptolemy VIII in Alexandria. Eudoxus returned with a cargo of aromatics and precious stones, prompting a second voyage in