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Autolycus
Autolycus
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Autolycus of Pitane was a Greek astronomer and mathematician active around the late 4th century BCE, a contemporary of Aristotle and slightly older than Euclid. He is best known for two short treatises on spherical geometry as applied to astronomy: "On the Moving Sphere" (De Sphaera Quae Movetur) and "On Risings and Settings" (De Ortibus et Occasibus). These are among the oldest surviving Greek mathematical works preserved in their entirety, and they helped lay the groundwork for later astronomical geometry by Euclid and others. He is traditionally said to have come from Pitane in Aeolis (Asia Minor).
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Athens, the capital of Greece since 1834, was the leading intellectual centre of the classical Greek world. Socrates taught there, and four major philosophical schools took root in the city: Plato's Academy, founded around 387 BCE, Aristotle's Lyceum, the Stoa of Zeno, and Epicurus' Garden. Under Hellenistic and Roman rule Athens remained a place of study that drew students from across the empire; in the 4th century CE the Christian writers Basil of Caesarea and Gregory of Nazianzus studied there together, while Neoplatonist teachers kept lecturing. Emperor Justinian's ban on pagan teaching of philosophy in 529 is generally taken to mark the end of the city's ancient history.