160 BC - Births

Births

  • Jugurtha, King of Numidia (d. 104 BC)
  • Theodosius of Bithynia, Greek astronomer and mathematician who will write the Sphaerics, a book on the geometry of the sphere (d. c. 100 BC), later translated from Arabic back into Latin to help restore knowledge of Euclidean geometry to the West.

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