Hypsicles

Hypsicles in Wikipedia

Hypsicles (Ancient Greek: Ὑψικλῆς; ca. 190 BCE - ca. 120 BCE) was an ancient Greek mathematician and astronomer known for authoring On Ascensions (Ἀναφορικός) and the spurious Book XIV of Euclid's Elements. Life and work Although little is known about the life of Hypsicles, it is believed that he authored the astronomical work On Ascensions (Ἀναφο...

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Hypsĭcles in Harpers Dictionary of Classical Antiquities

（Ὑψικλῆς). An astronomer of Alexandria, who flourished under Ptolemy Physcon, about B.C. 146. He is considered by some to have been the author of the fourteenth book appended to Euclid's Elements, in which he discussed the regular solids. No one, however, disputes his claim to a small work entitled Περὶ τῆς τῶν Ζωδίων Ἀναφορᾶς, in which he gives a ...

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