Aratus

Trigonometry has been used for thousands of years, but many don’t know where it all began and originated. There were many individuals that contributed to the development of this area of study, which has created the official study of the relations of the sides and angles of triangles and the relevant functions of any angles. As a Greek astronomer, geographer, and mathematician, Hipparchus of Rhodes is known as the person that laid the framework for trigonometry and is famous for his incidental discovery

constellation system comes from the ancient Greeks, but the information comes from a Greek poem called Phaenomena written about 270 B.C by Greek poet named Aratus. Today we know that this isn't the first discovery of the constellations, but no one knows for sure who first discovered them.But we do have a possible theory; which comes from the fact that Aratus’ constellations didn't include any from the south hemisphere that area of the sky was below the horizon of the ancient constellations-makers. This shows

however, animals and plants that once inhabited the same area move at different speeds, creating new interspecies interactions. Mangrove tree crabs, Aratus pisonii, originally inhabited only the natural range of the mangrove tree. The current range of the mangrove tree along the East coast starts at Jacksonville, Florida and continues south. Aratus depends on the mangrove not only for shelter, but for their main food source as well. The crabs remain in the trees, traveling vertically during high

second hand accounts from him many students, the work his students produced especially Almagest by Ptolemy, and the only surviving work that is still left today, Τῶν Ἀράτου καὶ Εὐδόξου φαινομένων ἐξήγησις (Commentary on the Phaenomena of Eudoxus and Aratus).

The origins of Ursa Major and Minor in Roman Mythology discuss how the God Jupiter fell in love with a maiden named Callisto. Jupiter’s wife Juno became jealous and when she discovered Callisto had given birth to a son she assumed Jupiter to be the father. She wanted to punish Callisto and Jupiter so she changed Callisto into a bear. Years later Callisto’s son, Arcas, comes across her in the forest and Callisto momentarily forgets that she’s a bear and rushes to great him. Arcas thinks he’s being

astronomer in his 30’s. Hipparchus was best known to be an astronomer, aside from that he was also a Greek mathematician and geographer. Most of the work that he did is now lost , but “Only one work by Hipparchus has survived, namely Commentary on Aratus and Eudoxus and this is certainly not one of his major works. It is however important in that it gives us the only source of Hipparchus's own writings”.(1) Nevertheless, most of his research and calculations are found in ‘Almagest’ by Claudius Ptolemy

Ophiuchus, known alternatively as “the serpent bearer”, “the serpent-holder” and “the snake charmer”. I was initially intrigued by the constellation Ophiuchus (“The Serpent Bearer”) after hearing that it was occasionally considered the thirteenth sign of the western zodiac, especially after discovering that my birthdate falls between its designated dates. I developed a further interest in this constellation after reading about its overlap with the constellation Serpens (the serpent in question)

also liked to (artistically speaking) be in the company of characters from mythology. Examples of this appear in the mosaics exhibited at ‘Brading’ in the Isle of White, a Romano-British villa. These mosaics feature the likes of, ‘Abraxas, Attis, Aratus, Achilles and Medusa’ (Brading Villa– Examining Mosaics,

4 Greek Astronomers/Scientists Some of the top scholars in Greek history were Thales, Hipparchus, Aristarchus, and Ptolemy. These astronomers, scientists, mathematicians, and more went beyond their time to figure out problems and the world’s science, as we know it today. All four of these men have discovered, invented, or figured out a way to increase our knowledge of space and how it works. Looking back on what they have accomplished, they must have been true masters of their art to have figured

Mitchol Dunham Master Katy Chenoweth Classical Humanities 2200 30 July 2015 In the Tusculan Disputations, Cicero wrote “The Epicureans by their writings have seized the whole of Italy.” Indeed, this often neglected or dismissed branch of philosophy played a great role in the development of the culture of Rome through the late Republican period. It can prove difficult to find examples of noteworthy Epicureans holding political office compared with their polemic counterparts, the Stoics, largely because