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Headword:
*qeodo/sios
Adler number: theta,142
Translated headword: Theodosios, Theodosius
Vetting Status: high
Translation: Philosopher.[1] He wrote *
Spherics in 3 books, a
Commentary on the summaries of Theudas, *
On Days and Nights [in] two [books], a
Commentary on the Method of Archimedes,
Specifications of Houses in three books,[2]
Investigatory summaries,
Astrological matters, *
On Habitations.
*qeodo/sios, filo/sofos. e)/graye *sfairika\ e)n bibli/ois g#, *(upo/mnhma ei)s ta\ *qeuda= kefa/laia, *peri\ h(merw=n kai\ nuktw=n du/o, *(upo/mnhma ei)s to\ *)arximh/dous *)efo/dion, *diagrafa\s oi)kiw=n e)n bibli/ois trisi/, *skeptika\ kefa/laia, *)astrologika/, *peri\ oi)kh/sewn.
Notes:
Fl.100 BCE; see generally OCD4 s.v.
Theodosius(4) of
Bithynia; MacTutor History of Mathematics at web address 1. Three of the works listed here (marked *) survive; others -- e.g. the commentary on Theudas (C2 CE) -- seem to have strayed in from the biography of another, later
Theodosius.
[1] So by ancient classification; in the OCD and the TLG Canon he is an astronomer and mathematician.
[2] Perhaps the same as
On Habitations, below.
Web address 1
Keywords: architecture; biography; mathematics; philosophy; science and technology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 May 2006@05:20:34.
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