Diocles
c. 240-c. 180 B.C.
Greek Mathematician
The details of his life are virtually unknown, and Diocles is remembered almost entirely for a fragmentary manuscript entitled On Burning Mirrors. In it ...
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Diocles
fl. second century B.C.
Greek mathematician who, according to Arabic tradition, discovered the parabolic burning mirror. Diocles discusses the theory of spherical and parabolic burning mirrors...
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Diocles