Dionysodorus
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Dionysodorus of Caunus (, c. 250 BC – c. 190 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician.
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- Instance of
- human
- Gender
- male
- Place of birth
- Kaunos
- Occupation
- mathematician
- Languages spoken
- Ancient Greek
- Field of work
- geometry
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- name in native language
- Διονυσόδωρος ὁ Καύνειος
- birth name
- Διονυσόδωρος
- date of birth
- 0250-00-00
- date of death
- 0190-00-00
- time period
- classical antiquity
- described by source
- Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
- writing language
- Ancient Greek
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Dionysodorus of Caunus (, c. 250 BC – c. 190 BC) was an ancient Greek mathematician.
== Life and work == Little is known about the life of Dionysodorus. Pliny the Elder writes about a Dionysodorus who measured the Earth's circumference, however he is probably the one from Melos and different both from the one from Caunus and from Dionysodorus of Amisene; Strabo differentiates between the latter two mathematicians.
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