Flourished fourth century
Chalcidius’s popular commentary on Plato ’s Timaeus included some epicycle theory. It was an important vehicle for the transmission of Platonic cosmology to the Middle Ages.
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Hockey, T. (2014). Chalcidius. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_258
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