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Menelaus of Alexandria (/ˌmɛnɪˈleɪəs/; Greek: Μενέλαος ὁ Ἀλεξανδρεύς, Menelaos ho Alexandreus; c. 70 – 140 CE) was a Greek mathematician and astronomer...

In Euclidean geometry, Menelaus's theorem, named for Menelaus of Alexandria, is a proposition about triangles in plane geometry. Suppose we have a triangle...

is closest to Menelaus. The following craters have been renamed by the IAU. Menelaus S - See Daubrée. "Menelaus (crater)". Gazetteer of Planetary Nomenclature...

of the sphere, and Menelaus of Alexandria, who wrote a book on spherical trigonometry called Sphaerica and developed Menelaus' theorem. The Book of Unknown...

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190–120 BC (ancient Greece) Posidonius c. 135–51 BC (ancient Greece) Menelaus of Alexandria c. AD 70–140 (ancient Greece) Claudius Ptolemy c. AD 83–168 Roman...

triangles were also known, particularly the method of Menelaus of Alexandria, who developed "Menelaus' theorem" to deal with spherical problems. However...

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were developed from the writings of Ptolemy. He also preserved the writings of Menelaus of Alexandria and reworked many of the Greeks theorems. He died in...

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treatise of the same title by Menelaus of Alexandria (c. 100 AD). Berggren, J. L. (1986), "Spherics in the Islamic world", Episodes in the Mathematics of Medieval...

Lighthouse of Alexandria was one of the Seven Wonders of the Ancient World while during the reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus, the Library of Alexandria was the...

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with by earlier mathematicians such as Menelaus of Alexandria, whose treatise the Spherics included Menelaus' theorem, still a basic tool for solving...

Greek scholar. Isidore of Alexandria an Egyptian or Greek philosopher and one of the last of the Neoplatonists Menelaus of Alexandria (c. 70–140 CE), a Greek...

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possibility of negative numbers possessing square roots. Menelaus of Alexandria (c. 100 AD) pioneered spherical trigonometry through Menelaus' theorem....

Ptolemy compared his own observations with those made by Hipparchus, Menelaus of Alexandria, Timocharis, and Agrippa. He found that between Hipparchus's time...