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AUTOLYCUS OF PITANE

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Originally appearing in Volume V03, Page 47 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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AUTOLYCUS OF PITANE , See also:Greek mathematician and astronomer, probably flourished in the second See also:half of the 4th See also:century B.C., since he is said to have instructed See also:Arcesilaus. His extant See also:works consist of two See also:treatises; the one, IIepi Ktvovj. vjs a-Oaipas, contains some See also:simple propositions on the See also:motion of the See also:sphere, the other, Ilepi iirtroXwv Kai biwewv, in two books, discusses the rising and setting of the fixed stars. The former See also:treatise is historically interesting for the See also:light it throws on the development which the See also:geometry of the sphere had already reached even before Autolycus and See also:Euclid (see See also:THEODOSIUS of TRIPOLIS). There are several Latin versions of Autolycus, a See also:French See also:translation by Forcadel (1572), and an admirable edition of the Greek See also:text with Latin translation by F. Hultsch (See also:Leipzig, 1885).

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