Posidonius of Rhodes
c. 135-c. 51 B.C.
Stoic philosopher and astronomer who improved on Hipparchus's (c. 170-c. 120 B.C.) estimate of Earth's distance to the Sun. He also disagreed with ...
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Posidonius(135–51? Bce)
Posidonius of Apameia, the Stoic philosopher, was famous in his own time and continued to influence writers into the first and second centuries CE. Soon after, his writi...
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Posidonius [addendum]
Modern study of Posidonius has been transformed since the mid-1960s by the collection of ancient evidence compiled by Ludwig Edelstein and Ian G. Kidd (1972), and minutely analyz...
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Posidonius of Rhodes
Posidonius (135-51? Bce)