# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/eudoxus-of-cnidus
# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:50:33.916Z

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description: "An ancient Greek polymath whose entire body of work vanished—yet the geometry of planetary motion and the rigorous foundation of Greek mathematics both run through ideas he set down twenty-four centuries ago."
tagline: "Greek astronomer and mathematician (c.408–c.355 BC)"
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country:
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birthDate: "-408"
deathDate: "-355"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Eudoxus of Cnidus lived around 390 to 340 BC, studying under Archytas and Plato in an era when mathematics, astronomy, medicine, and law hadn't yet split into separate worlds. He worked across all four. None of his original writings survived antiquity, but fragments preserved in Hipparchus's commentaries and echoes in later texts like Theodosius of Bithynia's Spherics suggest he laid groundwork that others would build on for centuries. What remains is a shadow—enough to know the shape of what was lost.