"Meton" redirects here. For the insect genus, see Meton (beetle). For the lunar formation, see Meton (crater).
Meton of Athens
Born
Greece
Died
Greece
Nationality
Greek
Occupations
Mathematician, astronomer, geometer, engineer
Meton of Athens (Greek: Μέτων ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; gen.: Μέτωνος) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geometer, and engineer who lived in Athens in the 5th century BC. He is best known for calculations involving the eponymous 19-year Metonic cycle, which he introduced in 432 BC into the lunisolar Attic calendar. Euphronios says that Colonus was Meton's deme.[1]
MetonofAthens (Greek: Μέτων ὁ Ἀθηναῖος; gen.: Μέτωνος) was a Greek mathematician, astronomer, geometer, and engineer who lived in Athens in the 5th century...
seconds longer than 19 tropical years. MetonofAthens, in the 5th century BC, judged the cycle to be a whole number of days, 6,940. Using these whole numbers...
over centuries by the Babylonians and by MetonofAthens (fifth century BC), Timocharis, Aristyllus, Aristarchus of Samos, and Eratosthenes, among others...
Methoni, Pieria, the modern town nearby MetonofAthens, an ancient Greek astronomer. Metonic cycle, a 19 year cycle of lunar event This disambiguation page...
Hippias Hippocrates of Chios Hypatia Hypsicles Leodamas of Thasos Marinus of Neapolis Menaechmus Menelaus of Alexandria MetonofAthens Metrodorus Nicomachus...
performed. In it, the character MetonofAthens mentions squaring the circle, possibly to indicate the paradoxical nature of his utopian city. Dante's Paradise...
Metonic cycle after MetonofAthens (432 BCE), the Babylonians used this cycle before Meton, and it may be that Meton learned of the cycle from the Babylonians...
variation in the speed of the Sun, called the "solar anomaly". He also followed up on the work done by MetonofAthens to measure the length of the year and construct...
of Anania's astronomical works, Tables of the Motions of the Moon (Խորանք ընթացիք լուսոյ, Xorank’ ënt’ac’ik’ lusoy), is based on the works ofMeton of...
developed in Athens by the astronomers Meton and Euctemon (known to be active in 432 BC), could have been used to pattern the insertion of leap years to...
ceremony was on June 26, 1842. In a notable speech Georgios discussed MetonofAthens and his astronomical observatory that was in the same city over 2200...
associated or merged with AEGEK Group: Efklidis SA, Astakos Terminal SA, Meton SA, Edafostatiki SA, Polispark SA, AEGEF, AEGEK GRP ROM and others. AEGEK...
is a hill or hillside in central Athens, the capital of Greece. Beginning as early as 507 BC (Fifth-century Athens), the Athenians gathered on the Pnyx...
This is a list of calendars. Included are historical calendars as well as proposed ones. Historical calendars are often grouped into larger categories...
A. "Hearth of Hellenism: The Greek Wheel of the Year". www.ysee.gr. Retrieved 24 Jan 2009. Christos Pandion Panopoulos, Panagiotis Meton Panagiotopoulos...
calendars, notably in Athens, is 1.53 days longer than eight mean Julian years. The length of nineteen years in the cycle ofMeton was 6,940 days, six hours...
years. This nineteen-year period was called by the Greeks as the ‘year ofMeton', the time period in which the stars returned to their initial positions...
astronomer and mathematician Meton in 432 BC calculated the shifts in the lunisolar cycle, they were already known to the educated elite of the Bronze Age. The...
Great Year of eight solar years was in use (= 99 months). Shortly after Oenopides, in 432 BC, Meton and Euctemon discovered the better value of 18 years...
in Merovingian dynasty) Metonic – Meton (as in Metonic cycle) Millian – John Stuart Mill (as in Millian theory of proper names) Miltonic – John Milton;...
originally had 223 teeth. All these fragments of the mechanism are kept at the National Archaeological Museum, Athens, along with reconstructions and replicas...
concept of eccentric centers of motion. Before around the year 430 BCE, Meton and Euktemon ofAthens observed differences in the lengths of the seasons...
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