Aglaonice
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title:
Aglaonice
text:
Aglaonice was a Greek astronomer and thaumaturge of the 2nd or 1st century BC. She is mentioned in the writings of Plutarch and in the scholia to Apollonius of Rhodes as a female astronomer and as the daughter of Hegetor of Thessaly. She was regarded as a sorceress for her (self-proclaimed) ability to 'make the moon disappear from the sky' which has been taken – first by Plutarch and subsequently by modern astronomers – to mean that she could predict the time and general area where a lunar eclip
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2nd-century BC Greek astronomer
original url:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aglaonice
date created:
2006-05-30T00:26:06Z
date modified:
2024-09-13T18:52:28Z
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