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17: 119:(fl.250 CE), Timosthenes of Rhodes developed a system of twelve winds by adding four winds to the classical eight, introducing the complete 12-point 112:
of Timosthenes work. Strabo says only that Eratosthenes preferred Timosthenes "above any other writer, though he often decides even against him."
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A History of Ancient Geography among the Greeks and Romans: from the earliest ages till the fall of the Roman Empire
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In the 280s–270s BCE, Timosthenes served as the admiral and chief pilot of the
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Strabo reports that Timosthenes wrote a "Pythian mood" (
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Rhodes
Greek
fl.
BCE
Greek
navigator
geographer
Ptolemaic navy
Greek 12-wind rose
Ptolemaic navy
Ptolemy II Philadelphus
Egypt
periplus
Eratosthenes
Strabo
Marcian of Heraclea
plagiarism
Agathemerus
Classical compass winds
Classical Antiquity
Greek geographers
winds
geographic
meteorological
nomos
Pythian games
Delphi
Apollo
Python

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