2 Quotes & Sayings By Apollonius Of Rhodes
Apollonius (c.125 BC - c.50 BC) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, and geographer of the ancient world. He was born in Alexandria, Egypt, and lived in Alexandria for most of his life. He was the first to describe the precession of the equinoxes and also devised an improved model of the Earth's spherical shape. He studied many subjects including astronomy, mathematics, geography, geometry, music theory, and mechanics
His works contained observations about eclipses, the speed of light, the distance to the Moon and Sun, and his theory on how to determine longitude at sea.