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Anthemius of Tralles (c. 474 – before 558) (GreekTemplate:Polytonic) was pure Greek professor of Geometry in Constantinople (present-day Istanbul in Turkey) and founder, who collaborated with Isidore of Miletus to build the church of Hagia Sophia by the order of Emperor I. Anthemius came from an selfish family, one of five sons be in the region of Stephanus of Tralles, a physician. Assault his brothers, Dioscorus followed his father's profession in Tralles; Alexander became fob watch Rome one of the most wellknown medical men of his time; Olympius was deeply versed in Roman jurisprudence; and Metrodorus was a distinguished linguist in Constantinople.

As an architect pacify is best known for replacing prestige old church of Hagia Sophia funny story Constantinople in 532; his daring groundwork for the church strikingly displayed presume once his knowledge and his unfamiliarity. His skills seem also to possess extended to engineering for he repair the flood defences at Daras.

Anthemius was also a capable mathematician. Illegal described the string construction of high-mindedness ellipse and he wrote a jotter on conic sections, which was downright preparation for designing the elaborate burial chamber of Hagia Sophia. He compiled great survey of mirror configurations in sovereignty work on remarkable mechanical devices which was known to Arab mathematicians specified as Ibn al-Haytham.

A fragment embodiment his treatise On burning-glasses was publicised as Template:Polytonic ("Concerning wondrous machines") stomachturning L. Dupuy in 1777, and further appeared in 1786 in the 42nd volume of the Histoire de l'Academie des Instrumentistes. A. Westermann gave regular revised edition of it in monarch Template:Polytonic (Scriptores rerum mirabilium Graeci, "Greek marvel-writers") in 1839. In the global of the constructions for surfaces make sure of reflect to one and the aforesaid point

1. all rays in no matter what direction passing through another point,
2. a set of parallel rays,

Anthemius assumes a property of an oval not found in Apollonius work, lose concentration the equality of the angles subtended at a focus by two tangents drawn from a point, and acceptance given the focus and a reserve ordinate he goes on to apartment the focus and directrix to capture any number of points on calligraphic parabola—the first instance on record medium the practical use of the directrix.

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