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Hypsicles
of Hypsicles (AD 1783/4), Kitāb Isqilawus fī maṭāli‘ ('Book of Hypsicles on Rising Times', called Anaphoricus in the West). Hypsicles ( ; c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer known for authoring On Ascensions (Ἀναφορικός) and possibly the Book XIV of Euclid's Elements. Hypsicles lived in Alexandria.
Article summary
of Hypsicles (AD 1783/4), Kitāb Isqilawus fī maṭāli‘ ('Book of Hypsicles on Rising Times', called Anaphoricus in the West). Hypsicles ( ; c. 190 – c. 120 BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer known for authoring On Ascensions (Ἀναφορικός) and possibly the Book XIV of Euclid's Elements. Hypsicles lived in Alexandria.
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