Carpus of Antioch

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Carpus of

Iamblichus, Carpus also constructed a curve for the purpose of squaring the circle, which he calls a curve generated by a double motion.[4]

Notes

  1. ^ Proclus, on Euclid, 241-243
  2. ^ Proclus, on Euclid, 125-126
  3. ^ Pappus, Collection, 1026
  4. ^ Iamblichus, quoted in Simplicius, Categories, 192.19

References

  • Thomas Little Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics, page 428. Courier Dover Publications.
  • Michael Taunton, (2001), Surveying Instruments of Greece and Rome, pages 33–34. Cambridge University Press.