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.
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