Euclid
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Euclid was an ancient Greek mathematician active as a geometer and logician. Considered the "father of geometry", he is chiefly known for the Elements treatise, which established the foundations of ge
Euclid by Jusepe de Ribera, c. 1630–1635
Detail of Raphael's impression of Euclid, teaching students in The School of Athens (1509–1511)
Domenico Maroli's 1650s painting Euclide di Megara si traveste da donna per recarsi ad Atene a seguire le lezioni di Socrate [Euclid of Megara Dressing as a Woman to Hear Socrates Teach in Athens]. At the time, Euclid the philosopher and Euclid the mathematician were wrongly considered the same person, so this painting includes mathematical objects on the table.
A papyrus fragment of Euclid's Elements dated to c. 75–125 AD. Found at Oxyrhynchus, the diagram accompanies Book II, Proposition 5.
Archimedes
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Archimedes of Syracuse was an Ancient Greek mathematician, physicist, engineer, astronomer, and inventor from the city of Syracuse in Sicily. Although few details of his life are known, based on his s
Euclid
…combination with a synthesis of theories from earlier Greek mathematicians, including Eudoxus of Cnidus, Hippocrates of Chios, Thales and Theaetetus. With Archimedes and Apollonius of Perga, Euclid is generally considered among the greatest mathematicians of antiquity, and one of the most influential in the history…
Archimedes Thoughtful (1620)
Cicero Discovering the Tomb of Archimedes (1805) by Benjamin West
Front page of Archimedes' Opera, in Greek and Latin, edited by David Rivault (1615)
Ostomachion is a dissection puzzle found in the Archimedes Palimpsest