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Meton of Athens (Greek: Μέτων ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; gen.: Μέτωνος) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geometer, and engineer who lived in Athens in the 5th century...

seconds longer than 19 tropical years. Meton of Athens, in the 5th century BC, judged the cycle to be a whole number of days, 6,940. Using these whole numbers...

over centuries by the Babylonians and by Meton of Athens (fifth century BC), Timocharis, Aristyllus, Aristarchus of Samos, and Eratosthenes, among others...

Methoni, Pieria, the modern town nearby Meton of Athens, an ancient Greek astronomer. Metonic cycle, a 19 year cycle of lunar event This disambiguation page...

Metonic cycle after Meton of Athens (432 BCE), the Babylonians used this cycle before Meton, and it may be that Meton learned of the cycle from the Babylonians...

Hippias Hippocrates of Chios Hypatia Hypsicles Leodamas of Thasos Marinus of Neapolis Menaechmus Menelaus of Alexandria Meton of Athens Metrodorus Nicomachus...

Menelaus of Alexandria (Menelaus theorem) Meton of Athens Parmenides Porphyry Posidonius Proclus Thales Theodosius of Bithynia Astronomy instruments Antikythera...

performed. In it, the character Meton of Athens mentions squaring the circle, possibly to indicate the paradoxical nature of his utopian city. Dante's Paradise...

Galen Heron of Alexandria Herophilos Hipparchos Hippocrates Meton of Athens Parmenides Posidonios Ptolemy Pythagoras of Samos Sostratus of Cnidus Strabo...

bell. Marquis Yi was from the State of Chu during the Warring States phase of the Zhou dynasty. Meton of Athens, a Greek mathematician and astronomer...

variation in the speed of the Sun, called the "solar anomaly". He also followed up on the work done by Meton of Athens to measure the length of the year and construct...

bell. Marquis Yi was from the State of Chu during the Warring States phase of the Zhou dynasty. Meton of Athens, a Greek mathematician and astronomer...

Meton, offering a set of town-plans, an imperial inspector from Athens with an eye for a quick profit, and a statute-seller trying to peddle a set of...

Metion Meton of Athens Metope Metope (mythology) Metopes of the Parthenon Metretes Metrocles Metrodora Metrodorus (grammarian) Metrodorus of Athens Metrodorus...

of Anania's astronomical works, Tables of the Motions of the Moon (Խորանք ընթացիք լուսոյ, Xorank’ ënt’ac’ik’ lusoy), is based on the works of Meton of...

scale (Modified Mercalli scale) – Giuseppe Mercalli Metonic cycle – Meton of Athens Meyers synthesis – Albert I. Meyers Mie scattering (a.k.a. Lorenz–Mie...

developed in Athens by the astronomers Meton and Euctemon (known to be active in 432 BC), could have been used to pattern the insertion of leap years to...

ceremony was on June 26, 1842. In a notable speech Georgios discussed Meton of Athens and his astronomical observatory that was in the same city over 2200...

associated or merged with AEGEK Group: Efklidis SA, Astakos Terminal SA, Meton SA, Edafostatiki SA, Polispark SA, AEGEF, AEGEK GRP ROM and others. AEGEK...

is a hill or hillside in central Athens, the capital of Greece. Beginning as early as 507 BC (Fifth-century Athens), the Athenians gathered on the Pnyx...