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This is the English version of this article translated by Patrick Hogan. The original Italian version was written by Claudio Meliadò and first published on 31/10/2017.

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Biography:

Attalus was an astronomer¹ and mathematician² of the mid-2^nd c. BCE (Kidd 1997, p. 18) and an older contemporary of Hipparchus³. He revised the text of Aratus’⁴ Phaenomena⁵, probably based on a collation of several manuscripts (Lui…