Eudoxus of Cnidus

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

Eudoxus of Cnidus, born in 408 B.C. and died 355 B.C in Cnidus, Asia Minor, was well-known for his multitude of great achievements; both in astronomy and mathematics. However, focusing on his mathematical accomplishments, Eudoxus has made a significant mark in history due to his numerous contributions to mathematics. Working along with many famous philosophers and mathematicians such as Archytas, Philiston, and Plato, Eudoxus was able to broaden his knowledge and thus help lead modern-day mathematicians

has been dated back to around 4000 B.C. According to a “Constellation History” article by Jim Fuchs “In the 8th century B.C. (800-701). Homer mentioned a few now familiar constellations in his epic poem, the Odyssey. Four hundred years later Eudoxus of Cnidus wrote about 43 constellations.” (Fuch) Ptolemy, another Greek astronomer had created a book called the Almagest which contained a lot of our present day constellations. This book was written in 150 A.D. and contained 48 constellations of those

There is only limited information on indigenous Greek constellations. Some evidence is found in Hesiod. Greek astronomy essentially adopted the older Babylonian system in the Hellenistic er introduced to Greece by Eudoxus of Cnidus in the 4th century BC. The original work of Eudoxus is lost, but it survives as a versification by Aratus, dating to the 3rd century BC. The most c existing works dealing with the mythical origins of the constellations are by the Hellenistic writer termed pseudo-Eratosthenes

The History of Math Mathematics, study of relationships among quantities, magnitudes, and properties and of logical operations by which unknown quantities, magnitudes, and properties may be deduced. In the past, mathematics was regarded as the science of quantity, whether of magnitudes, as in geometry, or of numbers, as in arithmetic, or of the generalization of these two fields, as in algebra. Toward the middle of the 19th century, however, mathematics came to be regarded increasingly as the

The Catholic Church and the Copernican Revolution The Catholic Church played an important role at the time when all the works in which the movement of the earth was admitted, Catholics were forbidden to teach, and even read, the Copernican theories. The “Copernican Theory” modeled some problems of enormous importance for Christian’s obviously theological nature. Leaders like Martin Luther and John Calvin told us that Scripture brandished against Nicolaus Copernicus and provoked repression against

HISTORY OF ASTRONOMY Astronomy is the oldest of the natural sciences, dating back to antiquity, with its origins in the religious, mythological, and astrological practices of pre-history: vestiges of these are still found in astrology, a discipline long interwoven with public and governmental astronomy, and not completely disentangled from it until a few centuries ago in the Western World . In some cultures astronomical data was used for astrological prognostication. Ancient astronomers were able

------------------------------------------------- Constellation From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia This article is about the star grouping. For other uses, see Constellation (disambiguation). | | | | * Top: Baroque drawing of the constellation Orionfrom Johannes Hevelius' celestial catalogue * Bottom: Contemporary map of Orion from the IAUand photography of the night sky | In everyday usage, a constellation is a traditional or recognizable group of stars in the night sky,