| LC control no. | nr 93024514 |
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| Descriptive conventions | rda |
| Personal name heading | Menelaus, of Alexandria |
| Variant(s) | مانالاوس Mānālāwus Ménélaos, d'Alexandrie Menelaus, Alexandrinus Menelaus, aus Alexandrien Menélaus, ho A̓lexandreús Millaeus, Astronomus Ménélas, d'Alexandrie Ménélaüs, d'Alexandrie Menelao, di Alessandria Menelaos, of Alexandria Menelaos, aus Alexandrien Menelaos, von Alexandreia |
| Beginning date | 0098 |
| Associated country | Egypt Italy |
| Located | Alexandria (Egypt) Rome (Italy) |
| Field of activity | Astronomy Geometry Mathematics |
| Profession or occupation | Astronomers Mathematicians |
| Special note | Data provided by the ESTC/BL Non-Latin script references not evaluated. |
| Found in | His Menelai Sphæricorum libri III, 1758. NUC pre-56 (Menelaus, of Alexandria) 23888 (online via HMML), viewed on April 16, 2021 (مانالاوس=Mānālāwus; author of al-Ashkāl al-kurrīyah (Sphaerica), fol. 38v-88v; manuscript text in Arabic) <https://w3id.org/vhmml/readingRoom/view/530204> MacTutor (online via School of Mathematics and Statistics, University of St Andrews, Scotland), viewed on April 16, 2021: Menelaus of Alexandria (born ca. 70, possibly in Alexandria, Egypt, died ca. 130; Greek who applied spherical geometry to astronomy; best known for the so-called Menelaus's theorem; Ptolemy records that Menelaus made astronomical observations in Rome in 98; called Menelaus of Alexandria by both Pappus and Proclus; "most likely scenario is that he lived in Alexandria as a young man, possibly being born there, and later moved to Rome"; author of Sphaerica, his only work to survive, which "deals with spherical triangles and their application to astronomy") <https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Menelaus/> World History Encyclopedia (online), viewed on April 16, 2021: Menelaus of Alexandria (Greek astronomer, scientist, and mathematician who lived around 100 CE) <https://www.worldhistory.org/Menelaus_of_Alexandria/> CERL thesaurus (online), viewed on April 16, 2021: Ménélaos d'Alexandrie (Greek mathematician/astronomer; worked in Alexandria and Rome near end of 1st c. CE; variants = Menelaus, Alexandrinus; Menelaus aus Alexandrien; Menélaus ho A̓lexandreús; Millaeus Astronomus; Ménélas d'Alexandrie; Ménélaüs d'Alexandrie; Menelao, di Alessandria; Menelaos, of Alexandria; Menelaos, aus Alexandrien; Menelaos, von Alexandreia) <https://data.cerl.org/thesaurus/cnp01329799> |
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