Aglaonice de Thessalie
See also: Aglaonice
Aganice or Aglaonice de Thessalie (in Greek old Ἀγλαονίκης / Aglaoníkês ) is often regarded as the first woman Astronome.
Girl of Hégétor of Thessalie according to Plutarque but of Hégémon according to a scholie of Apollonios of Rhodos, it lives in Greece where it passes for a Sorcière. Thus, according to the testimony of Plutarque, she “knew the cause of the complete eclipses S of the Moon and envisaged in advance the moment when it sometimes happens at this star to enter the shade of the ground, she deceived the other women in their persuading which she reduced the moon”.
A crater of Venus bears its name.
Sources
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Plutarque, marital Precepts (XLVIII, 145c), On the sanctuaries whose oracles ceased (XIII, 417a).
- Scholie of Apollonios of Rhodos (IV, 59).
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