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Noun Named Entity
Categories: Ancient Greek geometers, 140 deaths, 2nd-century mathematicians, 1st-century astronomers, Ancient Greek astronomers
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Menelaus of Alexandria  Menelaus Alexandrinus
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Menelaus of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician and astronomer, the first to recognize geodesics on a curved surface as natural analogs of straight lines. Wikipedia
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Menelaus of Alexandria was a Greek mathematician and astronomer, the first to recognize geodesics on a curved surface as natural analogs of straight lines. Wikipedia
A Hellenistic mathematician and astronomer Wikipedia Disambiguation
Greek mathematician and astronomer Wikidata
IS A
homo
DESCRIBED BY SOURCE
Brockhaus and Efron Encyclopedic Dictionary
DIFFERENT FROM
Menelaus
FIELD OF WORK
astronomy
GIVEN NAME
Menelao
LANGUAGES SPOKEN, WRITTEN OR SIGNED
Ancient Greek
NATIVE LANGUAGE
Ancient Greek
OCCUPATION
astronomer
mathematician
PLACE OF BIRTH
Alexandria
PLACE OF DEATH
Rome
SEX OR GENDER
male
TIME PERIOD
Hellenistic period
WRITING LANGUAGE
Ancient Greek
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Menelaus of Alexandria
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Menelaus of Alexandria
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Menelaus Alexandrinus

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