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Willingly would I burn to death like Phaeton, were this the price for reaching the sun and learning its shape, its size, and its substance.

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Eudoxus of Cnidus

Born: 408 BC
Died: 355 BC (aged 53)
Bio: Eudoxus of Cnidus was a Greek astronomer, mathematician, scholar and student of Plato. All of his works are lost, though some fragments are preserved in Hipparchus' commentary on Aratus's poem on astronomy.

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