About Dionysius of Cyrene
Dionysius of Cyrene was a mathematician.
Dionysius of Cyrene , 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 , where Dionysius is reported as arguing that the Sun must be very large because it reappears slowly from behind an obstruction.
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