Diocles

Malik, Saira ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1959-610X 2021. Diocles. Fleet, Kate, Kramer, Gudrun, Matringe, Denis, Nawas, John and Rowson, Everett, eds. Encyclopaedia of Islam, THREE, Leiden, The Netherlands: Brill, (10.1163/1573-3912_ei3_COM_26044)

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Abstract

This chapter gives account of the life and works of Diocles, a Greek mathematician, who produced a work on 'burning mirrors' which only survives in an Arabic translation.

Item Type:	Book Section
Status:	Published
Schools:	History, Archaeology and Religion
Subjects:	A General Works > AZ History of Scholarship The Humanities B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BL Religion B Philosophy. Psychology. Religion > BP Islam. Bahaism. Theosophy, etc C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CB History of civilization C Auxiliary Sciences of History > CT Biography D History General and Old World > DE The Mediterranean Region. The Greco-Roman World D History General and Old World > DF Greece P Language and Literature > PI Oriental languages and literatures
Publisher:	Brill
ISBN:	9789004435964
Date of First Compliant Deposit:	4 December 2022
Last Modified:	06 Dec 2022 12:25
URI:	https://orca.cardiff.ac.uk/id/eprint/154650

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