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Headword: *qe/wn
Adler number: theta,205
Translated headword: Theon, Theo
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
The man from the Mouseion,[1] an Egyptian, a philosopher, a contemporary of Pappos the philosopher who was also an Alexandrian.[2] Both of them happened to live during the reign of the elder Theodosius. He wrote works on mathematics and arithmetic, On Signs and Observation of Birds and the Sound of Crows, On the Rising of the Dog[-Star], On the Inundation of the Nile, [a commentary] on Ptolemy's Handy Table, and a commentary on the small astrolabe.[3]
Greek Original:
*qe/wn, o( e)k tou= *mousei/ou, *ai)gu/ptios, filo/sofos, su/gxronos de\ *pa/ppw| tw=| filoso/fw|, kai\ au)tw=| *)alecandrei=. e)tu/gxanon de\ a)mfo/teroi e)pi\ *qeodosi/ou basile/ws tou= presbute/rou. e)/graye maqhmatika/, a)riqmhtika/, *peri\ shmei/wn kai\ skoph=s o)rne/wn kai\ th=s kora/kwn fwnh=s, *peri\ th=s tou= kuno\s e)pitolh=s, *peri\ th=s tou= *nei/lou a)naba/sews, *ei)s to\n *ptolemai/ou pro/xeiron kano/na, kai\ *ei)s to\n mikro\n a)stro/labon u(po/mnhma.
Notes:
C4 CE. See generally OCD(4) s.v. Theon(4); FGrH 651. MacTutor History of Mathematics at web address 1. For his daughter Hypatia see upsilon 166.
[1] In Alexandria (Strabo 17.1.8).
[2] Pappos: pi 265.
[3] i.e. a larger and a smaller commentary on the same work.
Associated internet address:
Web address 1
Keywords: biography; chronology; geography; mathematics; science and technology; zoology
Translated by: David Whitehead on 3 May 2006@06:44:23.
Vetted by:
Catharine Roth (set status) on 4 May 2006@01:04:43.
David Whitehead (typo) on 4 May 2006@03:58:59.
David Whitehead (augmented primary note, thanks to CR) on 4 May 2006@04:05:21.
David Whitehead on 1 January 2013@05:53:36.
David Whitehead on 1 January 2013@05:54:58.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 6 January 2013@23:54:28.
David Whitehead on 5 August 2014@07:01:23.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 24 December 2017@01:29:52.
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