Proclus

Proclus Diadochus

Born: 410 in Constantinople (now Istanbul), Byzantium (now Turkey)
Died: 485 in Athens, Greece

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Proclus became head of Plato's Academy in Athens. He wrote Commentary on Euclid which is our principal source about the early history of Greek geometry.

Proclus had access to books which are now lost and others, already lost in Proclus's time, were reported on based on extracts in other books available to Proclus.

References elsewhere in this archive:

Tell me about Proclus and non Euclidean geometry

Show me a quotation from Proclus

References:

  1. Dictionary of Scientific Biography
  2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica
  3. L J Rosán, The Philosophy of Proculus (New York, 1949). 
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