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. Wikipedia
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