Eudoxus of Cnidus
c. 390 BCE–c. 337 BCE · Cnidus
Greatest mathematician before Euclid; theory of proportions and method of exhaustion, plus the first geometric model of planetary motion (homocentric spheres).
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CnidusCaria (Asia Minor)
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About Cnidus
A Dorian Greek city on the southwest coast of Asia Minor, renowned for its medical school and as the home of Eudoxus—the brilliant mathematician and astronomer who modeled the heavens with concentric spheres.
The world in their lifetime
Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Eudoxus of Cnidus’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
- Isocrates· 436 BCE–338 BCE
- Archytas of Tarentum· 435 BCE–347 BCE
- Aristippus of Cyrene· 435 BCE–356 BCE
- Alcidamas· 435 BCE–360 BCE
- Xenophon· 430 BCE–354 BCE
- Plato· 428 BCE–348 BCE
- Isaeus· 420 BCE–340 BCE
- Diogenes of Sinope· 412 BCE–323 BCE
- Speusippus· 408 BCE–338 BCE
- Xenocrates of Chalcedon· 396 BCE–314 BCE
- Apollodorus son of Pasion· 394 BCE–
- Lycurgus· 390 BCE–324 BCE
- Hyperides· 390 BCE–322 BCE
- Hegesippus· 390 BCE–
- Heraclides Ponticus· 390 BCE–310 BCE
- Aeschines· 389 BCE–314 BCE
- Philip of Opus· 385 BCE–
- Demosthenes· 384 BCE–322 BCE
- Aristotle· 384 BCE–322 BCE
- Philip II of Macedon· 382 BCE–336 BCE
- Demades· 380 BCE–319 BCE
- Aristoxenus· 375 BCE–315 BCE
- Theophrastus· 371 BCE–287 BCE
- Crates of Thebes· 365 BCE–285 BCE
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