SOSIGENES  , See also:

• GREEK
• GREEK, ETRUSCAN AND

Greek astronomer and mathematician, probably of See also:

• ALEXANDRIA
• ALEXANDRIA (Arab. Iskenderia)

Alexandria, flourished in the 1st See also:

• CENTURY (from Lat. centuria, a division of a hundred men)

century B.C . According to See also:

• PLINY, THE ELDER
• PLINY, THE YOUNGER

Pliny (Nat . Hist. xviii . 25), he was employed by See also:

• JULIUS

Julius See also:

• CAESAR, GAIUS JULIUS (102—44 B.c.)
• CAESAR, SIR JULIUS (1557-1558-1636)

Caesar in the reform of the See also:

• ROMAN

Roman See also:

• CALENDAR

calendar (46 B.c.), and wrote three See also:

• TREATISES

treatises, which he conscientiously corrected . From another passage of Pliny (ii . 8) it is inferred that Sosigenes maintained the See also:

• DOCTRINE

doctrine of the See also:

• MOTION (Lat. motio, from movere, to move)
• MOTION, LAWS OF

motion of See also:

• MERCURY
• MERCURY (MERCU1uus)
• MERCURY (symbol Hg, atomic weight = 2oo)

Mercury See also:

• ROUND (O. Fr. rond, Lat. rotundus, the Fr. is the source also of Du. rond; Ger., Swed., Dan. and Nor. rond)

round the See also:

• SUN
• SUN (0. Eng. sonne, Ger. sonne. Fr. soleil, Lat. sol, Gr. ijXior, from which comes helio- in various English compounds)

sun, which is referred to by his contemporary See also:

• CICERO

Cicero, and was also held by the Egyptians . The astronomer is to be distinguished from the Peripatetic philosopher of the same name, who lived at the end of the 2nd century A.D . He was the See also:

• TUTOR (Lat. tutor, guardian, tueri, to watch over, protect)

tutor of See also:

• ALEXANDER
• ALEXANDER (1461-1506)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OF BATTENBERG) (1857-1893)
• ALEXANDER (ALEXANDER OsxENOVici) (1876-1903)
• ALEXANDER, ARCHIBALD (1772—1851)
• ALEXANDER, FRANCIS (1800—1881)
• ALEXANDER, GEORGE (1858— )
• ALEXANDER, JOHN WHITE (1856- )
• ALEXANDER, JOSEPH ADDISON (18o9—186o)
• ALEXANDER, SIR JAMES EDWARD (1803—1885)
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM (1824— )
• ALEXANDER, WILLIAM LINDSAY (1808—1884)

Alexander of Aphrodisias, the most famous of the commentators on See also:

• ARISTOTLE
• ARISTOTLE (384-322 B.C.)

Aristotle . He wrote a See also:

• WORK

work on Revolving See also:

• SPHERES, MUSIC OF THE

Spheres, from which some important extracts have been preserved iri See also:

• SIMPLICIUS

Simplicius's commentary on Aristotle's De caelo (the subject is fully discussed by T . H . See also:

• MARTIN (Martinus)
• MARTIN, BON LOUIS HENRI (1810-1883)
• MARTIN, CLAUD (1735-1800)
• MARTIN, FRANCOIS XAVIER (1762-1846)
• MARTIN, HOMER DODGE (1836-1897)
• MARTIN, JOHN (1789-1854)
• MARTIN, LUTHER (1748-1826)
• MARTIN, SIR THEODORE (1816-1909)
• MARTIN, SIR WILLIAM FANSHAWE (1801–1895)
• MARTIN, ST (c. 316-400)
• MARTIN, WILLIAM (1767-1810)

Martin, " Sur deux Sosigene," in Annales de la See also:

• LAC

lac. See also:

• DES

des letires de See also:

• BORDEAUX

Bordeaux, i., 1879) .