Autolycus of Pitane
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Ancient Greek mathematician
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Autolycus of Pitane was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, and geographer. He is known today for his two surviving works On the Moving Sphere and On Risings and Settings, both about spherical geometry.
