Aristaeus

Aristaeus the Elder


Born: about 360 BC in Greece
Died: about 300 BC

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Aristaeus was a contemporary of Euclid and Euclid gave him great credit for a work Solid Loci , the Greek name for conics, which is now lost. The work of both Aristaeus and Euclid on conics was, almost 200 years later, further developed by Apollonius.

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