Sosigenes the Peripatetic
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Late 2nd century Roman philosopher and astronomer
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Sosigenes the Peripatetic was a philosopher living at the end of the 2nd century AD. He was the tutor of Alexander of Aphrodisias and wrote a work On Revolving Spheres, from which some important extracts have been preserved in Simplicius's commentary on Aristotle's De Caelo.
