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                <requestUrn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:D.diocles_12</requestUrn>
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                <urn>urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1:D.diocles_12</urn>
                <passage>
                    <TEI xmlns="http://www.tei-c.org/ns/1.0"><text xml:base="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><body xml:lang="eng" n="urn:cts:pdlrefwk:viaf88890045.003.perseus-eng1"><div type="textpart" subtype="alphabetic_letter" n="D"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="diocles-bio-12" n="diocles_12"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Di'ocles</surname></persName></head><p>(<label xml:lang="grc">Διοκλῆς</label>), a geometer of unknown <pb n="1011"/> date, who
      wrote <foreign xml:lang="grc">περὶ πύριων</foreign>, according to Eutocius who has cited
      from that book (<hi rend="ital">Comm. in Sph. et Cycl. Archim.</hi> lib. ii. prop. v.) his
      method of dividing a sphere by a plane in a given ratio. But he is better known by another
      extract which Eutocius (<hi rend="ital">Op. Cit.</hi> lib. ii. prop. ii.) has preserved,
      giving his mode of solving the problem of two mean proportionals by aid of a curve, which has
      since been called the <hi rend="ital">cissoid,</hi> and is too well known to geometers to need
      description. </p><byline>[A. <hi rend="smallcaps">DE</hi> M.]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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