Dionysius of Cyrene
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Template:Short description Dionysius of Cyrene (Template:Langx), lived c. 150 BC, was a Stoic philosopher and mathematician.
He was a pupil of Diogenes of Babylon and Antipater of Tarsus.
He was famed as a mathematician, and he is probably the Dionysius whose arguments are attacked by Philodemus in his book On Signs (Template:Langx),[1] where Dionysius is reported as arguing that the Sun must be very large because it reappears slowly from behind an obstruction.[2]
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- ↑ Allen, J., Inference from Signs: Ancient Debates about the Nature of Evidence, p. 207. Oxford University Press. (2001).Template:ISBN?
- ↑ Barnes, J., "Pyrrhonism, Belief and Causation. Observations on the Skepticism of Sextus Empiricus", pp. 2661–2662, in Aufstieg und Niedergang der römischen Welt:: Geschichte und Kultur Roms im Spiegel der neueren Forschung. ed. Werk, Vogt, Haase, Temporini. Walter de Gruyter. (1997).Template:ISBN?
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Cf. The New von Arnim Project, Dir. Christian Vassallo (University of Turin), https://www.apathes.unito.it/