Dicaearchus
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Dicaearchus (also Dicearchos, Dicearchus or Dik�archus, Greek Δικαιαρχος; circa 350 BC � circa 285 BC) was a Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and author. He was born in Messine (also Messana, Messene; present-day Messina). Dicaearchus was Aristotle's student in Lyceum. Very little of his work remains extant. He made geometric constructions of a hyperbola and a parabola and worked mainly in the field of cartography, where he was among the first to use geographical coordinates.
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