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133 AD (search for this): entry theon-bio-1a
THEON of Smyrna The date of " Theon of Smyrna the philosopher," to quote in full the account which Suidas gives of him, depends upon the assumption (which there seems no reason to dispute) that he is the Theon whom Ptolemy and the younger Theon mention as having made astronomical observations in the time of Hadrian. Theon of Smyrna certainly wrote on astronomy. On the assumption just made, Ptolemy has preserved his observations of Mercury and Venus (A. D. 129-133). Bouillaud supposes that it is Theon of Smyrna to whom Proclus alludes as having written on the genealogies of Solon and Plato, and Plutarch as having written on the lunar spots. (See Bouillaud's preface, or the quotations in Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 35.) Works *Tw=n kata\ maqhmatikh\n xrhsi/mwn ei)s th\n tou= *Pla/twnos a)na/gnwsin All that we have left is a portion of a work entitled, *Tw=n kata\ maqhmatikh\n xrhsi/mwn ei)s th\n tou= *Pla/twnos a)na/gnwsin. The portion which now exists is in two books, one on
129 AD (search for this): entry theon-bio-1a
THEON of Smyrna The date of " Theon of Smyrna the philosopher," to quote in full the account which Suidas gives of him, depends upon the assumption (which there seems no reason to dispute) that he is the Theon whom Ptolemy and the younger Theon mention as having made astronomical observations in the time of Hadrian. Theon of Smyrna certainly wrote on astronomy. On the assumption just made, Ptolemy has preserved his observations of Mercury and Venus (A. D. 129-133). Bouillaud supposes that it is Theon of Smyrna to whom Proclus alludes as having written on the genealogies of Solon and Plato, and Plutarch as having written on the lunar spots. (See Bouillaud's preface, or the quotations in Fabric. Bibl. Graec. vol. iv. p. 35.) Works *Tw=n kata\ maqhmatikh\n xrhsi/mwn ei)s th\n tou= *Pla/twnos a)na/gnwsin All that we have left is a portion of a work entitled, *Tw=n kata\ maqhmatikh\n xrhsi/mwn ei)s th\n tou= *Pla/twnos a)na/gnwsin. The portion which now exists is in two books, one on