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Cleomedes
Biography
Cleomedes is known only through his book On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies which is an uninspiring astronomy textbook.Cleomedes biography samples
There are a number of points of interest in this book, however, as we shall discuss below.
We should first discuss the perplexing question of the period in which Cleomedes lived. The only certainty here is that On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies discusses the work of Posidonius at length and so is clearly written after the middle of the first century BC.
In fact On the Circular Motions of the Celestial Bodies ends with the words (see for example [3]):-
The preceding teachings are not the author's own opinion but collected from older or more recent summaries; much of it is taken from Posidonius.It is hard to estimate from these words how long after Posidonius the author, Cleomedes, is writing.
Heath[2] favours a date in the middle of the first century BC. He also points out:-
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