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Although we know little of Menelaus of Alexandria's life Ptolemy records astronomical observations made by Menelaus in Rome on the 14th January in the year 98.

These observation included that of the occultation of the star Beta Scorpii by the moon.

It is based on these rectifications of the Arabic translations of Menelaus' Spherics that Gerard of Cremona produced his.

Menelaus was a Greek mathematician born around 70 AD in Alexandria.

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Menelaus of Alexandria, Greek mathematician (d.

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He also makes an appearance in a work by Plutarch who describes a conversation between Menelaus and Lucius in which Lucius apologises to Menelaus for doubting the fact that light, when reflected, obeys the law that the angle of incidence equals the angle of reflection.

Lucius says (see for example [1]):-

In your presence, my dear Menelaus, I am ashamed to confute a mathematical proposition, the foundation, as it were, on which rests the subject of catoptrics. Yet it must be said that the proposition, "All reflection occurs at equal angles" is neither self evident nor an admitted fact.

This conversation is supposed to have taken place in Rome probably quite a long time after 75 AD, and indeed if ou