Anania Shirakatsi

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Anania Shirakatsi (610–685) was an Armenian scholar, mathematician, and geographer. His most famous works are Geography Guide, and Cosmography. His greatest claim to fame was the fact that the Earth was round, and that there was more to the heavens and world then the standard Aristotelian belief purported at the time.

The Anania Shirakatsi Medal is an Armenian State Award for scientists in the economics and natural sciences, engineers and inventors.[1]

In 2005, the Central Bank of the Republic of Armenia issued an Anania Shirakatsi commemorative coin.[2]

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• The Geography of Ananias of Sirak. The Long and the Short Recensions. Introduction, Translation and Commentary by Robert H. Hewsen. Dr. Ludwig Reichert Verlag, Wiesbaden, 1992, Pp. 685.
• Anania Shirakatsi, «Geography Guide (VII c)» (in Russian translation, 1877) - «Армянская География VII века по Р.Х (приписывавшаяся Моисею Хоренскому)», СПб.,1877

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