Note 782 — BOOK II. AN ACCOUNT OF THE WORLD AND THE ELEMENTS. (continued 3)
John Bostock translation
Of Cnidus, an astronomer and legislator who flourished B.C. 366. He was a friend and disciple of Plato, and said to have been the first who taught in Greece the motions of the planets. His works on astronomy and geometry are lost, but his Phænomena have been preserved by Aratus, who turned his prose into verse.