An interesting fellow:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posidonius

Posidonius – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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Posidonius (Greek: Ποσειδώνιος / Poseidonios, meaning “of Poseidon”) “of Apameia” (ὁ Ἀπαμεύς) or “of Rhodes” (ὁ Ῥόδιος) (ca. 135 BCE – 51 BCE), was a Greek[1]Stoic[2]philosopher, politician, astronomer, geographer, historian and teacher native to Apamea, Syria.[3] He was acclaimed as the greatest po