When I heard the learn’d Astronomer;
When the proofs, the figures, were ranged in columns before me;
When I was shown the charts and the diagrams, to add, divide, and measure them;
When I, sitting, heard the astronomer, where he lectured with much applause in the lecture-room,
How soon, unaccountable, I became tired and sick;
Till rising and gliding out, I wander’d off by myself,
In the mystical moist night-air, and from time to time,
Look’d up in perfect silence at the stars.
Conon was born on the Greek island of Samos
Court Astronomer to Ptolemy III Euergetes in Alexandria
Named the Constellation Coma Berenices after Ptolemy's wife Berenice II
Conon (possibly) died in Alexandria
The Conon lunar crater was named in his honor
Hermes is the Messenger of the Gods
Hermes Trismegistus is a patron of Astrology and Alchemy
Username CononOfSamos was created on English Wikipedia on October 17, 2009. CononOfSamos (talk) 07:34, 18 October 2009 (UTC)
User CononOfSamos formerly edited on English Wikiquote as Archimedes.
