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Dicaearchus (also correct in English Dicearchos or Dicearchus) (Greek: Dixaiarxos), Greek philosopher, cartographer, geographer, mathematician and polygraph, born: ca. 350 B.C., Messine (also Messana, Messene), died: ca. 290 B.C.. Aristotle's student. His work is almost lost. He made geometric constructions of a hyperbola and a parabola and worked mainly in the field of cartography, where he was among the first to use geographical coordinates.