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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...6 KB (579 words) - 02:00, 9 August 2024
- 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...13 KB (1,482 words) - 15:30, 10 August 2024
- Hipparchus (redirect from Hipparchus of Nicaea)over centuries by the Babylonians and by Meton of Athens (fifth century BC), Timocharis, Aristyllus, Aristarchus of Samos, and Eratosthenes, among others...83 KB (10,063 words) - 21:53, 28 August 2024
- 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...852 bytes (137 words) - 05:54, 6 April 2024
- 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...23 KB (2,339 words) - 00:33, 19 August 2024
- Hippias Hippocrates of Chios Hypatia Hypsicles Leodamas of Thasos Marinus of Neapolis Menaechmus Menelaus of Alexandria Meton of Athens Metrodorus Nicomachus...11 KB (1,049 words) - 01:09, 29 February 2024
- Menelaus of Alexandria (Menelaus theorem) Meton of Athens Parmenides Porphyry Posidonius Proclus Thales Theodosius of Bithynia Astronomy instruments Antikythera...33 KB (4,192 words) - 12:27, 23 August 2024
- Squaring the circle (redirect from Quadrature of the circle)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...45 KB (4,916 words) - 23:41, 24 August 2024
- Galen Heron of Alexandria Herophilos Hipparchos Hippocrates Meton of Athens Parmenides Posidonios Ptolemy Pythagoras of Samos Sostratus of Cnidus Strabo...65 KB (5,950 words) - 21:31, 30 August 2024
- 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...4 KB (506 words) - 19:19, 19 August 2024
- Callippus (redirect from Calippus of Cyzicus)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...3 KB (408 words) - 08:44, 29 July 2024
- 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...295 bytes (2,318 words) - 13:06, 27 October 2023
- 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...47 KB (6,602 words) - 13:24, 23 July 2024
- Metion Meton of Athens Metope Metope (mythology) Metopes of the Parthenon Metretes Metrocles Metrodora Metrodorus (grammarian) Metrodorus of Athens Metrodorus...151 KB (13,185 words) - 00:21, 19 August 2024
- Anania Shirakatsi (redirect from Anania of Shirak)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...70 KB (6,914 words) - 09:05, 31 August 2024
- Scientific phenomena named after people (category Lists of eponyms)scale (Modified Mercalli scale) – Giuseppe Mercalli Metonic cycle – Meton of Athens Meyers synthesis – Albert I. Meyers Mie scattering (a.k.a. Lorenz–Mie...72 KB (6,829 words) - 04:03, 26 July 2024
- Attic calendar (redirect from Calendar of ancient Greece)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...25 KB (3,790 words) - 12:55, 9 April 2024
- Georgios Konstantinos Vouris (category Academic staff of the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens)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...19 KB (1,781 words) - 19:54, 6 July 2024
- Aegek SA (category Companies based in Athens)associated or merged with AEGEK Group: Efklidis SA, Astakos Terminal SA, Meton SA, Edafostatiki SA, Polispark SA, AEGEF, AEGEK GRP ROM and others. AEGEK...2 KB (220 words) - 17:04, 20 June 2023
- Pnyx (category Hills of Athens)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...13 KB (1,801 words) - 04:50, 16 July 2024
- name of Meton we join those of [Phaeinus] (Φαεινός) and [Euctemon] (Εὐκτήμων), all of Athens, contemporaries, and, as to the little which is known of them
- is a 19 solar year cycle divided into 235 lunar months developed by Meton of Athens, an early Greek astronomer. After 235 lunar months, the moon and sun