History Of Mathematics: Greece 195); Chrysippus (280206); conon of samos (c. 245); Apollonius of Perga (c.260-c. 185); Nicomedes (c. 240?) Dositheus of Alexandria (fl. c. http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/greece.html
History Of Mathematics: Chronology Of Mathematicians 195) *SB *MT; Chrysippus (280206); conon of samos (fl. c. 245) *SB; Apollonius ofPerga (c. 260-c. 185) *SB *MT; Nicomedes (c. 240? http://aleph0.clarku.edu/~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html
Extractions: Note: there are also a chronological lists of mathematical works and mathematics for China , and chronological lists of mathematicians for the Arabic sphere Europe Greece India , and Japan 1700 B.C.E. 100 B.C.E. 1 C.E. To return to this table of contents from below, just click on the years that appear in the headers. Footnotes (*MT, *MT, *RB, *W, *SB) are explained below Ahmes (c. 1650 B.C.E.) *MT Baudhayana (c. 700) Thales of Miletus (c. 630-c 550) *MT Apastamba (c. 600) Anaximander of Miletus (c. 610-c. 547) *SB Pythagoras of Samos (c. 570-c. 490) *SB *MT Anaximenes of Miletus (fl. 546) *SB Cleostratus of Tenedos (c. 520) Katyayana (c. 500) Nabu-rimanni (c. 490) Kidinu (c. 480) Anaxagoras of Clazomenae (c. 500-c. 428) *SB *MT Zeno of Elea (c. 490-c. 430) *MT Antiphon of Rhamnos (the Sophist) (c. 480-411) *SB *MT Oenopides of Chios (c. 450?) *SB Leucippus (c. 450) *SB *MT Hippocrates of Chios (fl. c. 440) *SB Meton (c. 430) *SB
Samos: Definition And Much More From Answers.com Perilaus Communities of the Samos prefecture conon of samos Rhoecus (AncientGreek sculptor). Aristarchus of Samos (Greek astronomer), Douris http://www.answers.com/topic/samos
Extractions: An island of eastern Greece in the Aegean Sea off the western coast of Turkey. First inhabited in the Bronze Age, it was later colonized by Ionian Greeks and became an important commercial and maritime power in the sixth century B.C. Controlled in turn by Persia, Athens, Sparta, Rome, Byzantium, and the Ottoman Empire, the island became part of modern-day Greece in 1913. Encyclopedia S¡mos sÄ mÅs, Gr. s¤ m´s ) , island (1991 pop. 33,032), c.181 sq mi (469 sq km), SE Greece, in the Aegean Sea; one of the Sporades, near Turkey. Largely mountainous, it rises to c.4,725 ft (1,440 m) on Mt. Kerki. The main towns are Karl³vasi and Vathi, the capital of S¡mos prefecture. The island has much fertile soil; grapes, tobacco, cotton, citrus fruits, and currants are grown, and wine is made. S¡mos was inhabited in the Bronze Age, and about the 11th cent. B.C.
Propertius conon of samos Greek astronomer, friend of Archimedes. Propertiuss poems bearevident marks of the study of his predecessors, both Greek and Latin, http://home.hio.no/~tord/alex/tiro/quoteinpropertius.htm
Extractions: Greek and Latin authors in Propertius PS LIA Propertius Aeschylus Antimachus of Colophon Callimachus Calvus Catullus Conon of Samos Corinna Demosthenes Ennius Epicurus Erinna Gallus Hesiod Mimnermus Philetas of Cos Ponticus Varro (poet) Vergil Ponticus - poet and acquaintance of Propertius and Ovid - wrote a Thebais P. Terentius Varro Atacinus (fl. 40 BC) wrote a translation of Argonautica by Apollonius satires a panegyrical epos Bellum Sequanicum a geographical didactic poem Chorographia an agricultural didactic poem Epimenides Conon of Samos - Greek astronomer, friend of Archimedes. SOURCE McCulloch. The poems of Sextius Propertius. A bilingual edition. UCalPress, 197
List Of Scientists By Field conon of samos. conon of samos. Conrad, Timothy Abbott. Constantine the African.Conybeare, William Daniel. Cook, James. Cooke, Josiah Parsons http://www.indiana.edu/~newdsb/c.html
Extractions: Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabanis, Pierre-Jean-Georges Cabeo, Niccolo Cabeo, Niccolo Cabeo, Niccolo Cabrera, Blas Cadet de Gassicourt, Charles- Louis Cadet de Gassicourt, Charles- Louis Cadet, Louis-Claude Cagniard de la Tour, Charles Cailletet, Louis Paul Cailletet, Louis Paul Caius, John Calandrelli, Giuseppe Calandrelli, Ignazio Calandrelli, Ignazio Calcidius Caldani, Leopoldo Marcantonio Caldani, Leopoldo Marcantonio Calkins, Gary Nathan Callan, Nicholas Callandreau, Pierre Jean Octave Callendar, Hugh Longbourne Callendar, Hugh Longbourne Callinicos of Heliopolis Callippus Callippus Calmette, Albert Camerarius, Rudolph Jakob Camerarius, Rudolph Jakob Cameron, Angus Ewan Cameron, Angus Ewan Campanella, Tommaso Campani, Giuseppe Campani, Giuseppe Campanus of Novara Campanus of Novara Campbell, Douglas Houghton Campbell, Ian Campbell, Norman Robert Campbell, Norman Robert Campbell, William Wallace Campbell, William Wallace Camper, Peter Camper, Peter Camper, Peter Canano, Giovan Battista Canano, Giovan Battista Cancrin, Franz Ludwig von
New Dictionary Of Scientific Biography conon of samos Copernicus, Nicholas Cortes de Albacar, Martín Cosserat, EugèneMaurice Pierre Cotes, Roger Cotte, Louis Cowell, Philip Herbert http://www.indiana.edu/~newdsb/astor.html
Coma Berenice But at nightfall, conon of samos showed the king the new constellation in the sky.The astrologers said that the goddess Aphrodite had placed her tresses http://www.eso.org/outreach/eduoff/edu-prog/catchastar/CAS2002/cas-projects/fran
Extractions: Collège St JUERY / 81160 St JUERY / FRANCE Constellation Coma Berenice I - The constellation Coma Berenice II - Legend III - Stars and objects in Coma Berenice IV - Exercise V - Bibliography I - The constellation Coma Berenice Coma berenice is a small boreal constellation. In the past, this constellation was the tuft of hair at the extremity of the Leo's tail. Identity card : - name : Coma berenice - abrevation : Com - size : 42 - RA : 13 hours - decl. : +25 degrees - season : Spring Coma Berenice is between four constellations : Cames Venatici to the north, Virgo to the south, Leo on the west and Bootes on the east. II - Legend The constellation were named by the royal Greek astrologer Conon of Samos (247 BC) after the hair of Egyptian Queen Berenice. She was the wife of Ptolemy III and the daughter of Magas of Cyrene. When King Ptolemy III went to war against Seleucos, the king of Syria, Berenice promised her hair to Aphrodite, the Greek goddess of love and beauty, if her husband returned safely and victorious. After the king's return, Berenice, condemned by her wish, cut her hair though loss was hard. The next day, when the king went to have a look at his wife's hair, he was furious to find that the hair had be stolen. But at nightfall, Conon of Samos showed the king the new constellation in the sky. The astrologers said that the goddess Aphrodite had placed her tresses among the stars and King Ptolemy III was satisfied. III - Stars and object in Coma Berenice
Archimedes His teacher was named conon of samos. Conon was one of the greatest influencesthat Archimedes had in his life. He taught Archimedes many things about life http://www.hyperhistory.net/apwh/bios/b2archimedes_p1ab.htm
Extractions: These daring words were made by a man whose genius changed the worlds of science and math forever. Many historians consider Archimedes to be one of the greatest scientists in history and the greatest mathematician of all time. Archimedes' contributions to science and math include the discovery and development of the laws and principles of mechanics, buoyancy, hydrostatics, specific gravity, the lever, and the pulley; in addition, he discovered how to find the measurement of a circle and the volume of a solid. These discoveries and other inventions were the life and love of Archimedes. Archimedes grew up in the Greek city-state of Syracuse on the island of Sicily. His father was an astronomer named Phidias. Archimedes is known to be a relative of Hiero II, who was the king of Syracuse during Archimedes' life. Hiero and Archimedes were very close friends. However, nothing else is known about any other members of Archimedes' family. Archimedes lived in Syracuse for his whole life, except for when he went to school in Alexandria, and at one point it was up to Archimedes' inventions to save Syracuse from being taken by the Romans. Archimedes had a good education as a boy, for the Greeks loved knowledge and sent their sons to schools to become knowledgeable Greek citizens. Some of the subjects that he studied as a boy were poetry, politics, astronomy, mathematics, music, art, and military tactics. When Archimedes was in his teens he sailed to Egypt to study in Alexandria. There he went to a famous school of mathematics that had been founded by Euclid. Archimedes studied astronomy, physics, and mathematics with many other great minds of the time. His teacher was named Conon of Samos. Conon was one of the greatest influences that Archimedes had in his life. He taught Archimedes many things about life and science. Archimedes' studies in Alexandria became the foundation on which he built his career as a scientist and mathematician.
Archimedes, Of Syracuse It is probably here that he met conon of samos, who he remained in correspondencewith as a personal as well as professional friend. http://www.nahste.ac.uk/isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P1090.html
Extractions: Occupation, Sphere of Activity Archimedes of Syracuse ( c287-212 BC ) was a mathematician and inventor. His father was Pheidias, an astronomer, of which we know nothing. While he is famous now, as he was then, largely because of his inventions, it is reported that he despised invention as being less "pure" than geometry, and he never wrote about his creations. Little is known about his life, though he is described by some as having been a relative - by others as a close friend - of Hiero (or Hieron) II, King of Syracuse, who employed him as a tutor to his son. He almost certainly spent a part of his life studying in Alexandria - where he is thought to have played an important role in the development of Euclidian mathematics. It is probably here that he met Conon of Samos, who he remained in correspondence with as a personal as well as professional friend. He wrote a number of books, ten of which have survived largely intact. These deal mostly with geometrical problems - particularly centres of gravity of solids, studies of spheres and conical sections, spirals and other mathematical matters. Among his propositions, particularly interestingly, are an approximation of 'pi' - which he reached after circumscribing and inscribing a circle with two 96-sided polygons, an explanation of the law of levers, a foundation for theoretical mechanics, a means of accurately approximating square roots of large numbers, a precursor to Newton and Leibniz's calculus and a proposed system of numbering for large figures which went high enough - 8x10^16 in modern notation - to count to a higher number than the number of grains of sand that would fill the universe - or so Archimedes believed.
Apollonius Of Perga | 262-190 BC | Greek Mathematician He credited conon of samos (c280c220 BC), a collaborator of Archimedes ofSyracuse (c287-212 BC), and Euclid of Alexandria (c325-c265 BC) with the original http://www.nahste.ac.uk/isaar/GB_0237_NAHSTE_P1095.html
Extractions: Biographical Information Occupation, Sphere of Activity Apollonius of Perga ( c262-c190 BC ) - whose life story remains a mystery as it is not even certain he was born in Perga, and his life dates are rough estimates - is remembered for his only major work still extant, Conics , an 8-book work (of which the first 7 survive) which summarises the knowledge of the time on the subject, and goes on to introduce numerous major new ideas. The terms "ellipse", "parabola" and "hyperbola" to describe conical sections, were coined in this work, and new definitions of the shapes were found. Until then, they had been defined as sections, perpendicular to the base, of different types of cone. Apollonius redefined them all as sections, at different angles, of the same cone. He credited Conon of Samos ( c280-c220 BC ), a collaborator of Archimedes of Syracuse ( c287-212 BC ), and Euclid of Alexandria ( c325-c265 BC ) with the original work on conical sections that inspired this work. Of his other books, all, with the exception of
Historia Matematica Mailing List Archive: Re: [HM] Apollonius' Conics them had been already exposed by conon of samos that their demonstrations conon of samos has to be considered as Apollonius precursor in the theory http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/aug99/0222.html
Mbox: Re: [HM] Earliest Priority Dispute? book, Apollonius elaborates and says conon of samos presented the firstmentioned question to Thrasydaeus without giving a correct http://sunsite.utk.edu/math_archives/.http/hypermail/historia/may99/0228.html
Coma Berenices It was the happy invention of this constellation by conon of samos, the royalastrologer, that consoled the royal pair after the theft of the tresses from http://www.winshop.com.au/annew/ComaBerenices.html
Extractions: Coma Berenices Berenices Hair Greek Alphabet The main star in Coma Berenice Star R A Decl 1950 Lat Mag Sp gamma beta Diadem alpha Myth and history: Coma Berenice, Berenice's Hair, is a constellation that consists of a multitude of stars, several clusters, nebulae and galaxies. The best known and most famous galaxy is M88. The naked eye can really see a wealth of glitter in the area of Coma Berenices, but a small telescope reveals an even more glorious display of astral abundance. [NPS p.150]. Coma Berenice seems to have been first alluded to by Eratosthenes as Arladne's Hair in his description of Ariadne's Crown. It was not known until about 243 BC, in the reign of the 3rd (Euergetes), the brother and husband of Berenice, whose amber hair we now see in the sky figure. It was the happy invention of this constellation by Conon of Samos, the royal astrologer, that consoled the royal pair after the theft of the tresses from the temple of Arsinoe Aphrodite at Zephyrium. For nearly the next 2000 years its right to a place among the constellations was unsettled, some referred to it as the stars behind the Lion's tail, or connected with Virgo, or an asterism in itself. Tycho, in 1602, set the question at rest by cataloguing it separately, adopting the early title as we have now. Some versions of the story turned the lady's hair into a hair-star or comet. [SLM p.168]. Aratos referred to it as 'Victory Bearing' and said 'the consecrated spoils of Berenice's yellow head, which the divine Venus placed, a new constellation, among the ancient ones, preceding the slow Bootes'. Hyginus and Ptolemy referred it as a cloudy condensation, it was called Al Utha (Arab?), literally 'a Mixture'. It was also called by the Greek words Tricas, Tericas and Triquetras which means 'tresses'. [SLM].
MythsZodiac the lock of Berenice by Callimachus and the mathematician conon of samos. However, Conon pointed out that the lock had been placed among the stars, http://www.winshop.com.au/annew/MythsZodiac.html
Extractions: The Myths of the Zodiac Aires the Ram (View the stars in the constellation Aries The ram with the golden fleece is believed to have been born of the union of Poseidon and Theophane, the daughter of Bialius. It is said that Poseidon had changed her into a sheep to keep her away from her many suitors, and the god himself turned himself into a ram to couple with her. But this ram is not remembered because of this amorous adventure. This ram carried the children of King Athamas of Boetia Phrixus and Helle in the air, across the waterway now known as the Hellespont. The ram, according to Pseudo-Eratosthenes, and given to the youngsters by their mother, Nephele ("cloud"). Eratosthenes mentions that as they crossed that narrow straight between Europe and Asia, the ram threw the young girl Helle off, and lost a horn at the same time. Poseidon, the god of the sea and of horses, purportedly rescued her. Hyginus in his Poetica Astronomia, however, is a little more candid, and notes that Poseidon raped her. Helle would later give birth to Paeon or to Edonus, depending on the source. According to Hyginus, after Phrixus arrived at Colchis, the kingdom of Aeetes, father of the Medea and brother to Circe and Pasiphae, the young man sacrificed the ram to Zeus and hung the golden fleece in the temple on the altar. Eratosthenes, however, says that the ram shed the fleece and gave it to Phrixus as a souvenir. The ram then went to the stars, where it is very faint. Not one star of Aires is brighter than the third-magnitude.
PSIgate - Physical Sciences Information Gateway Search/Browse Results conon of samos Born about 280 BC in Samos Died about 220 BC in (possibly)Alexandria, Egypt Show birthplace location Previous (Chronologically) Next http://www.psigate.ac.uk/roads/cgi-bin/search_webcatalogue2.pl?limit=500&term1=b
Archimedes Of Syracuse He regarded conon of samos, one of the mathematicians at Alexandria, both veryhighly for his abilities as a mathematician and he also regarded him as a http://www.engineering.com/content/ContentDisplay?contentId=41003003
Apollonius, Conics Book IV Now, Apollonius reports that conon of samos treated the case where a conic sectionor circumference of a circle meets another conic section, http://www.greenlion.com/conics-4.html
Extractions: [this web page last updated 14 June 05] The Green Lion announces a first English translation of Book IV of Conics, translated and annotated by Michael N. Fried, as a companion volume to our edition of Conics Books I-III. Conics IV deals with the way pairs of conic sections can intersect or touch each other. In his Introduction to the translation, Fried shows that this book has been misappraised by scholars too much inclined to see Apollonius's work merely as a precursor to the analytic geometry of the seventeenth century. He writes, "Playfulness is one of the real delights of Book IV. One can see in this playfulness the artful way Apollonius contends with the main challenge of the book-the problem of how the opposite sections, specifically, meet other sections of a cone and other opposite sections- how he gives this problem both foundation and context." 7 x 10", 104 pages.
ARCHIMEDES in measuring the length of the Earths meridian) and conon of samos (to whomlater he would often send his mathematical works before publication); http://www.kul.lublin.pl/efk/angielski/hasla/a/archimedes.html
Extractions: ARCHIMEDES Archimedes wrote in a laconic style, often leaving out important elements of his reasoning. His most important accomplishments in mathematics include a method of exhaustion that allow him to show the volume of geometrical solids bounded by arbitrary surfaces and the centers (centroids) of the surfaces of figures bounded by arbitrary curves. The method of exhaustion and the so-called axiom of Archimedes (presented in his treatise On the sphere and cylinder ) which says, given two magnitudes having a ratio, one can find a multiple of either which will exceed the other. This axiom became a source of new mathematical ideas in modern mathematics (differential calculus and integral calculus) and in contemporary mathematics (non-standard analysis). Archimedes regarded as his greatest accomplishment the work On the sphere and cylinder The measuring of the circle and The squaring of the parabola Archimedis opera On method The Works of Archimedes C C 1987, repr. The Works of Archimedes. A Supplement, The Method of Archimedes of 1912 , NY 1976.
History Of Samos History of Muscat wine in Samos Aristarchus of Samos Pithagoras of Samos conon of samos Melissus of Samos The Tunnel of Eupalinos http://www.greece.org/orgs/samians/samoshistory.htm
Extractions: In ancient times, Samos, although small, played a really significant role in culture and politics not only for the region of Ionia, but for the entire ancient Greece. From the evidence that has been found, derives that human beings have lived on Samos since the 3rd millenium BC, if not earlier. Its favourable position at the sea crossroad that link central Greece with East played a significant role for its development. Bones from the Paleontological Museum of Mytilinion Samos Traces of the human race have been found at the Hill of Castro from the late Neolithic era (fourth millennium B.C.). The first inhabitants belong to the Pelasgic tribes that spread the worship of Hera. According to mythology, Hera was born at the banks of the rive Imvras and was considered as the protector of Samos. Thus, her sacred bird, the peacock, often appeared on currency and escutcheons of the hegemony of Samos later.
