The Encyclopedia of Ancient Natural Scientists: The Greek tradition and its many heirs

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Tribonianus
Vara ̄hamihira
Vettius Valens of Antioch
Vicellius
Wuzurgmihr


Yavanes ́vara
Zarathusˇtra
Ze ̄narion
Zı ̄g
Zoroaster

Astronomy (161) (authors and writings on the motion and nature of the “stars,” often very
mathematical, and also often descriptive), cf. also Cosmology (it is not always possible
unambiguously to distinguish cosmology from astronomy); cf. also Astrology; cf. also
Meteo ̄rologika. Many entries by Bowen, Cusset, Jones, Lehoux, and Mendell:


Abiyu ̄n al-Bit
̇
riq
Adrastos of Kuzikos
Agrippa
Aiskhulos
Akhilleus
Alexander of Ephesos
Alexander of Lukaia
Alexander of Pleuron
Alkinoos
Ammo ̄nios, son of Hermeias
Ammo ̄nios of Alexandria, M. Annius
Anakreo ̄n
Anania of Shirak
Anaxagoras
Andreas of Athens
Andrias
Anthedius
Apollinarios
Apollo ̄nios of Laodikeia
Apuleius of Madaurus
Aratos of Soloi
Aristarkhos of Samos
Aristotheros
Aristullos
Artemido ̄ros
Artemido ̄ros of Parion
A ̄ryabhat
̇
a
Attalos of Rhodes
Atticus
Auienus
Autolukos
Billaros
Bio ̄n of Abde ̄ra
Boethius
Calcidius
Censorinus (II)


Derkullide ̄s
Didumos of Knidos
Diodo ̄ros of Alexandria
Diodo ̄ros of Tarsos
Diodotos (I)
Diodotos (II)
Diogene ̄s of Oinoanda
Diogene ̄s of Tarsos
Dio ̄n of Neapolis
Dionusios
Diophil-
Do ̄sitheos of Pe ̄lousion
Egnatius
Ekphantos
Eratosthene ̄s
Euainetos
Euclid
Eude ̄mos of Rhodes
Eudoxos of Knidos
Eukte ̄mo ̄n
Eutokios
Fauonius
T. Flauius Vespasianus
Fuluius
Geminus
Gregory of Tours
Harpalos
He ̄ge ̄sianax
Heliko ̄n
He ̄liodo ̄ros
He ̄liodo ̄ros of Alexandria
He ̄rakleide ̄s of He ̄rakleia Pontike ̄
Herminos
Hiketas
Hipparkhos of Nikaia
Hippokrate ̄s of Khios

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