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Autolycus
Autolycus
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Autolycus of Pitane was a Greek astronomer and mathematician active around the late 4th century BCE, a contemporary of Aristotle and slightly older than Euclid. He is best known for two short treatises on spherical geometry as applied to astronomy: "On the Moving Sphere" (De Sphaera Quae Movetur) and "On Risings and Settings" (De Ortibus et Occasibus). These are among the oldest surviving Greek mathematical works preserved in their entirety, and they helped lay the groundwork for later astronomical geometry by Euclid and others. He is traditionally said to have come from Pitane in Aeolis (Asia Minor).
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