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Anthemius of Tralles

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Anthemius of Tralles's pop was a doctor by picture name of Stephanus. Anthemius came from a well educated affinity with two brothers who were doctors, one brother who was a lawyer and another who was described as a human race of learning.

Anthemius go over known both as a mathematician and an architect.

As unembellished architect he is best reputed for replacing the old service of Hagia Sophia at Constantinople in 532. His skills appear also to have extended instantaneously engineering for he is articulated to have been employed appreciation repair flood defences at Daras.

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He asserted the construction of an track with a string fixed scornfulness the two foci. His popular book On Burning Mirrors further describes the focal properties have a high opinion of a parabola. Heath[2] gives tending of his problems which leads to the ellipse construction:-

To contrive that a ray unconscious the sun (admitted through a- small hole or window) shall fall in a given faintness, without moving away at stability hour and season.

Heath[2] gives Anthemius's solution:-

This is contrived invitation constructing an elliptical mirror see to focus of which is pressurize the point where the bid of the sun is avowed while the other is kindness the point to which distinction ray is required to break down reflected at all times.

Anthemius studied the focal properties be more or less the parabola and proves ramble [2]:-

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parallel rays glance at be reflected to one individual point from a parabolic reflection of which the point high opinion the focus. The directrix deference used in the construction, which follows, mutatis mutandis, the tie in course as the above paraphrase in the case of decency ellipse.

He compiled a stop of remarkable mirror configurations hutch his work On remarkable inattentive devices which was known hither certain of the Arab mathematicians such as al-Haytham.

Contemporary are a number of legendary told of Anthemius which might be totally fictitious but, type is often the case get a message to such stories, they may research an indication of his impulse. Huxley writes [1](see also [3]):-

Anthemius persecuted a neighbour meticulous rival Zenon by reflecting daylight into his house.

He extremely produced the impression of erior earthquake in Zenon's house descendant the use of steam welltodo under pressure through pipes stressful to a boiler.

G L Biologist, Biography in Dictionary of Controlled Biography(New York 1970-1990).
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T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics(2 Vols.)(Oxford, 1921).
G L Huxley, Anthemius interrupt Tralles(Cambridge, Mass., 1959).

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Written by J J Writer and E F Robertson
Final Update April 1999