Biography:Arrianus (astronomer)
Arrianus (Greek: Ἀρριανός) was an astronomer of Ancient Greece who probably lived as early as the time of Eratosthenes (that is, the 2nd century BCE), and who wrote a work on meteors, of which a fragment is preserved in Joannes Philoponus's commentary on the Meteorologica of Aristotle.
He also wrote a short work on comets, to prove that they had no supernatural significance and foreboded neither good nor evil.[1] Some writers ascribe this work to Arrian instead. A few fragments of it are preserved in Stobaeus.[2]
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This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Schmitz, Leonhard (1870). "Arrianus (3)". in Smith, William. Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology. 1. p. 350. https://quod.lib.umich.edu/m/moa/acl3129.0001.001/365.
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