Cleomedes
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Ancient Greek astronomer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Cleomedes was a Greek astronomer who is known chiefly for his book On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies , also known as The Heavens . Placing his work chronologically His birth and death dates are not known—historians have suggested that he wrote his work sometime between the mid-1st century BC and 400 AD. The earlier estimates rely on the fact that Cleomedes refers extensively in his writing to the work of mathematician and astronomer Posidonius of Rhodes , and yet seemingly not at all to the work of Ptolemy .
