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Chaldeans = Mathematici (1)

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Topics (move over topic to see place in topic list) Mathematics 05 Scientific knowledge and scholarly lore 05.08 Mathematics	Keywords Chaldeans mathematics
Period 2nd century CE Roman Empire	Channel Roman philosophers and scholars

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Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.9.6-7:
… the ancient Greeks called geometry, gnomonics, music and other higher studies mathēmata or “sciences”; but the common people apply the term mathematici to those who ought to be called by their ethnic name, Chaldeans.

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Aulus Gellius, Noctes Atticae 1.9.6-7

Bibliography

Rolfe 1961, I 46-47

Rolfe, John C. The Attic Nights of Aulus Gellius. 3 Vols. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge MA: Harvard University Press, London: Heinemann 1961.

Amar Annus

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