He composed science textbooks and the first known geographic work in classical Armenian (Ashkharhatsuyts), which provides detailed information about Greater Armenia, Persia and the Caucasus (Georgia and Caucasian Albania). Seen as a part of the Armenian Hellenizing School, the last lay scholar in Christian Armenia until the 11th century, Anania was educated primarily by Tychicus, in Trebizond. Little is known for certain of his life outside of his own writings, but he is considered the father of the exact and natural sciences in Armenia-the first Armenian mathematician, astronomer, and cosmographer. Anania Shirakatsi (Armenian: Անանիա Շիրակացի, Anania Širakac’i, anglicized: Ananias of Shirak) was a 7th-century Armenian polymath and natural philosopher, author of extant works covering mathematics, astronomy, geography, chronology, and other fields.Anania Širakaci, arménsky Անանիա Շիրակացի (610–685) byl starověký arménský filozof, matematik, astronom, geograf, kartograf a alchymista, zakladatel arménské vědy.
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