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Dicaearchus [Astro*Index]

(dy-see-ahr'kus)

(BC355-285) Greek geographer.

Studied under Aristotle at the Lyceum in Athens. He wrote a history of Greece and a world geography which provided both text and maps, which contain the first use of a Parallel of Latitude.

 

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