Autolycus of Pitane (c. 310 BC) a Greekmathematician, whose work in astronomy related to the rising and setting of fixed stars. He was an early experimenter in spherical geometry. Centuries: 5th century BC - 4th century BC - 3rd century BC Decades: 360s BC 350s BC 340s BC 330s BC 320s BC 310s BC 300s BC 290s BC 280s BC 270s BC 260s BC Years: 315 BC 314 BC 313 BC 312 BC 311 BC _ 310 BC _ 309 BC... Wikibooks Wikiversity has more about this subject: School of Mathematics Wikiquote has a collection of quotations by or about: Mathematics Look up Mathematics in Wiktionary, the free dictionary Wikimedia Commons has more media related to: Mathematics Bogomolny, Alexander: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany and Puzzles. ... Astronomy is one of the few sciences where amateurs can still play an active role, especially in the discovery and monitoring of transient phenomena. ... The Pleiades star cluster A star is any massive gaseous body in outer space, just like the Sun. ... From Latin ex- + -periri (akin to periculum attempt). ... Spherical geometry is the geometry of the two-dimensional surface of a sphere. ...
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He was born in Pitane, a town of Aeolis, in Asia Minor.
Autolycus' surviving works include a book on spheres (called On the Moving Sphere) and another on the rising and setting of celestial bodies.
In astronomy, Autolycus studied the relationship between the rising and the setting of the celestial bodies, and wrote that "any star which rises and sets always rises and sets at the same point in the horizon."
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