{"id":1693,"date":"2010-05-25T16:17:28","date_gmt":"2010-05-25T16:17:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/eudoxus-of-cnidos\/"},"modified":"2026-02-07T09:29:37","modified_gmt":"2026-02-07T09:29:37","slug":"eudoxus-of-cnidos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/eudoxus-of-cnidos\/","title":{"rendered":"Eudoxus of Cnidos"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>E<\/strong><strong>udoxus of <\/strong><strong>C<\/strong><strong>nidos <\/strong><strong>(c. 408-355 BC) <\/strong>was a renowned mathematician and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Eudoxus1.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-26986\" src=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/05\/Eudoxus1.png\" alt=\"Eudoxus\" width=\"202\" height=\"249\" \/><\/a>astronomer who was briefly a student at Plato\u2019s Academy in Athens. He also travelled to Egypt, where he studied astronomy with the priests at Heliopolis<sup>(a)<\/sup>.<\/p>\n<p>He was one of the first to suggest that the ancient Egyptians used lunar cycles to measure time and so provided an explanation for the apparently exaggerated time spans given by their priests when describing the antiquity of their civilisation. This idea was subsequently echoed by <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/plutarchus-mestrius\/\">Plutarch<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/diodorus-siculus\/\">Diodorus Siculus<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0 later by Francisco Cervantes de Salazar in the 16th century.<span style=\"color: #ff0000;\"> <a href=\"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/spanuth-dr-jurgen\/\">Spanuth<\/a> <\/span>and others have noted that the idea was reaffirmed in more recent times by Egypt\u2019s former King Farouk.<\/p>\n<p>It is probably appropriate that a lunar crater has been named after him.<\/p>\n<p><sup>(a) <\/sup><a href=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20221202163535\/https:\/\/mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk\/Biographies\/Eudoxus\/\">Eudoxus (408 BC &#8211; 355 BC) &#8211; Biography &#8211; MacTutor History of Mathematics (archive.org)<\/a><strong><span style=\"color: #ff0000;\">\u00a0*<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Eudoxus of Cnidos (c. 408-355 BC) was a renowned mathematician and astronomer who was briefly a student at Plato\u2019s Academy in Athens. He also travelled to Egypt, where he studied astronomy with the priests at Heliopolis(a). He was one of the first to suggest that the ancient Egyptians used lunar cycles to measure time and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[965,1437,2546,1075,437,1438,378],"class_list":["post-1693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-diodorus-siculus","tag-eudoxus-of-cnidos","tag-francisco-cervantes-de-salazar","tag-heliopolis","tag-juergen-spanuth","tag-king-farouk","tag-plutarch"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1693"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":66301,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1693\/revisions\/66301"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/atlantipedia.ie\/samples\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}