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                    <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="E"><div type="textpart" subtype="entry" xml:id="eutocius-bio-1" n="eutocius_1"><head><persName xml:lang="la"><surname full="yes">Euto'cius</surname></persName></head><p>(<persName xml:lang="grc"><surname full="yes">Εὐτόκιος</surname></persName>) of Ascalon, the
      commentator on Apollonius of Pesga and on Archimedes, must have lived about <date when-custom="560">A. D. 560</date>.</p><p>At the end of some of his commentaries on Archimedes he says he used " the edition
      recognised by Isidore of Miletus, the mechanic, <hi rend="ital">our master.</hi>" This Isidore
      was one of Justinian's architects, who built the church of St. Sophia.</p><div><head>Works</head><div><head>Mathematical Works</head><p>The Greek originals of the following works of Eutocius are preserved: <listBibl><bibl>Commentaries on the first four books of the Conics of Apollonius</bibl><bibl>On the Sphere and Cylinder</bibl><bibl>On the Quadrature of the Circle</bibl><bibl>On the Two Books on Equilibrium, of Archimedes.</bibl></listBibl></p><p>These commentaries were of ordinary value, as long as geometrical help in understanding
        the text was required. Torelli wishes that Eutocius had applied himself to all the writings
        of Archimedes. But they have a merit which will preserve them, independently of their
        mathematical value; they contain incidentally so much information on the lost writings of
        Greek geometers, and on the methods of Greek arithmetic, that they are integrant parts of
        the history of Greek learning. Torelli found them frequently give, by way of citation, a
        more satisfactory text of Archimedes than that of the remaining mannscripts, which he
        attributes to the goodness of Isidore's edition: <quote xml:lang="la">haec causa fuit, cur
         Archimedem in Eutocii domo conquirerem ubi melius quandoque quam in propria
         habitabat.</quote></p><div><head>Editions</head><p><bibl>These have been printed in the Greek edition of <hi rend="smallcaps">APOLLONIUS</hi></bibl>, and <bibl>in the two Greek editions of <hi rend="smallcaps">ARCHIMEDES</hi></bibl>.</p><p><bibl>Latin versions have been given with several of the versions of these two writers,
          sometimes complete, sometimes in part.</bibl></p><p>There has been no separate print of Eutocius.</p></div></div></div><div><head>Further Information</head><p>Torelli <hi rend="ital">Pref. in Archimed.; Fabric. Bibl. Graec.</hi> vol. iv. p. 203.</p></div><byline>[<ref target="author.A.DE.M">A. De M.</ref>]</byline></div></div></body></text></TEI>
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