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PAPPUS

Volume 17 · 66 words · 1842 Edition

an eminent philosopher of Alexandria, said by Suidas to have flourished under the Emperor Theodosius the Great, who reigned from 379 to 395. His writings prove him to have been a consummate mathematician. Many of them, however, are lost; and those which remain continued long in manuscript, detached parts only having been occasionally published, until Carolus Manolessius published his remains entire at Bologna in 1660, folio.