Diocles
240 BCE–180 BCE
Diocles was a Greek mathematician and geometer of the late 3rd and early 2nd century BCE, a contemporary of Apollonius. In his treatise On Burning Mirrors he proved the focal property of the parabolic mirror and introduced the cissoid curve to attack the problem of doubling the cube; his work later influenced Arab mathematicians such as Ibn al-Haytham. Dates are approximate (c. 240 – c. 180 BCE) and his birthplace is not securely known — the 'of Carystus' label sometimes attached to him conflates him with the earlier physician Diocles of Carystus, so no birthplace stop is asserted here.
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Thinkers, teachers, and rulers whose lives overlapped with Diocles’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
Graeco-Roman world
Jewish world
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Rulers
- Antiochus III the Great· 242 BCE–187 BCE
- Hannibal Barca· 247 BCE–183 BCE
- Emperor Gaozu of Han (Liu Bang)· 256 BCE–195 BCE
- Antiochus IV Epiphanes· 215 BCE–164 BCE
- Attalus I of Pergamon· 269 BCE–197 BCE
- Qin Shi Huang· 259 BCE–210 BCE
- Emperor Wen of Han· 202 BCE–157 BCE
- Mithridates I of Parthia· 195 BCE–132 BCE
- Ashoka the Great· 304 BCE–232 BCE
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