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    Posidonius was a Greek philosopher born in 135 BC in Apamea, Syria. He studied under the Stoic philosopher Panaetius in Athens but later settled in Rhodes, where he established his own school. Posidonius embarked on voyages around the Mediterranean gathering scientific data. He observed tides in Spain that varied with the moon's phases and cycles. Among the Celts in Gaul, he studied their culture and druids, whom he saw as philosophers. Posidonius wrote works on geography, ocean currents, races, earthquakes and the moon's impact on tides, and calculated the circumference of the Earth.

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    Posidonius was a Greek philosopher born in 135 BC in Apamea, Syria. He studied under the Stoic philosopher Panaetius in Athens but later settled in Rhodes, where he established his own school. Posidonius embarked on voyages around the Mediterranean gathering scientific data. He observed tides in Spain that varied with the moon's phases and cycles. Among the Celts in Gaul, he studied their culture and druids, whom he saw as philosophers. Posidonius wrote works on geography, ocean currents, races, earthquakes and the moon's impact on tides, and calculated the circumference of the Earth.

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    Posidonius was a Greek philosopher born in 135 BC in Apamea, Syria. He studied under the Stoic philosopher Panaetius in Athens but later settled in Rhodes, where he established his own school. Posidonius embarked on voyages around the Mediterranean gathering scientific data. He observed tides in Spain that varied with the moon's phases and cycles. Among the Celts in Gaul, he studied their culture and druids, whom he saw as philosophers. Posidonius wrote works on geography, ocean currents, races, earthquakes and the moon's impact on tides, and calculated the circumference of the Earth.

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    Posidonius, also known as "the Athlete" (Ἀθλητής), was a Greek philosopher born in approximately

    135 BC in the Hellenistic city of Apamea, located on the river Orontes in northern Syria. Despite his
    birthplace, Posidonius had a strong connection to Greek culture and did not express any fondness
    for his hometown in his writings. He even poked fun at the locals of Apamea.

    As a young man, Posidonius moved to Athens, where he studied under Panaetius, the preeminent
    Stoic philosopher of his time and the last undisputed head of the Stoic school in Athens. When
    Panaetius passed away in 110 BC, Posidonius was roughly 25 years old. Rather than remaining in
    Athens, he decided to settle in Rhodes, where he was granted citizenship. In Rhodes, Posidonius
    established his school, which quickly became the most prominent institution of its kind.

    Around the 90s BC Posidonius embarked on a series of voyages around the Mediterranean gathering
    scientific data and observing the customs and people of the places he visited. He traveled in Greece,
    Hispania, Italy, Sicily, Dalmatia, Gaul, Liguria, North Africa, and on the eastern shores of the Adriatic.
    In Hispania, on the Atlantic coast at Gades (the modern Cadiz), Posidonius could observe tides much
    higher than in his native Mediterranean. He wrote that daily tides are related to the Moon's orbit,
    while tidal heights vary with the cycles of the Moon, and he hypothesized about yearly tidal cycles
    synchronized with the equinoxes and solstices. In Gaul, he studied the Celts. He left vivid
    descriptions of things he saw with his own eyes while among them: men who were paid to allow
    their throats to be slit for public amusement and the nailing of skulls as trophies to the doorways.
    [18] But he noted that the Celts honored the Druids, whom Posidonius saw as philosophers, and
    concluded that even among the barbaric, "pride and passion give way to wisdom, and Ares stands in
    awe of the Muses." Posidonius wrote a geographic treatise on the lands of the Celts which has since
    been lost, but which is referred to extensively (both directly and otherwise) in the works of Diodorus
    of Sicily, Strabo, Caesar, and Tacitus' Germania.

    Posidonius was a prominent philosopher who gained recognition beyond academia in the 1980s with
    the publication of "About the Ocean and Adjacent Areas." He believed in the interconnectedness of
    the world and how climate shapes the character of people. His theory on the geography of races had
    political implications, and he documented observations on earthquakes and volcanoes. He also
    wrongly believed that the Moon's heat caPosidonius calculated the Earth's circumference by the arc
    measurement method, by reference to the position of the star Canopus.[42] As explained by
    Cleomedes, Posidonius observed Canopus on but never above the horizon at Rhodes, while at
    Alexandria he saw it ascend as far as 7½ degrees above the horizon (the meridian arc between the
    latitude of the two locales is actually 5 degrees 14 minutes). Since he thought Rhodes was 5,000
    stadia due north of Alexandria, and the difference in the star's elevation indicated the distance
    between the two locales was 1/48 of the circle, he multiplied 5,000 by 48 to arrive at a figure of
    240,000 stadia Yi-Fu Tuan (Chinese: 段義孚; December 5, 1930 – August 10, 2022) was a Chinese-
    born American geographer and writer. He was one of the key figures in human geography and
    arguably the most important originator of humanistic geography.

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