![]() He had to travel a lot about West Armenia seeking an advanced specialist in Mathematics. “And love strongly the art of figures”, he writes, “I thought that it’s not possible to compose something without figures honoring them as the mother of all wisdom”. ![]() Shirakatsi dreamt about specializing especially in Mathematics, which he considered “mother of all sciences”. He got his elementary education in the local monastery school, later being eager to improve his knowledge, he went to West Armenia. ![]() There is a valuable source about Anania Shirakatsi’s life and work the author has left his autobiography.įrom Shirakatsi’s autobiography we learn that he was born in the village Aneank (Shirakavan) at the beginning of the 7th century. Unfortunately, out of Shirakatsi’s rich heritage only some fragments of his works in the fields of Mathematics, Cosmography, Calendarology, Metrology, which are of great value for the history of exact sciences, got to us. Lecturer, Department of Geology, Yerevan State University (YSU)Īnania Shirakatsi is one of the greatest scientists who made an important contribution to the field of exact sciences in Armenia, a brilliant scientist and philosopher of the 7th century actually the founder of exact sciences in Armenian reality. Anania Shirakatsi, the Great Medieval Scientist ![]()
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