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	Sporus biography
		In his turn, Sporus taught Pappus of Alexandria, or perhaps was an older pupil at the same time as Pappus, and we know of him through Pappus's writings and the writings of Eutocius.
		One of his contributions, which is described by Pappus, was to criticise the method of squaring the circle using the quadratrix of Hippias.
		Sporus also criticised Archimedes for not producing a more accurate approximation of π.
	www-groups.dcs.st-and.ac.uk /history/Biographies/Sporus.html (317 words)

	Nicaea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Nicaea (now İznik) is a city in Anatolia (now part of Turkey) which is known primarily as the site of two major meetings (or Ecumenical councils) in the early history of the Christian church.
		Nicaea (Greek Nikaia) was originally founded around 310 B.C. by the Macedonian king Antigonus, who had taken control of much of Asia Minor upon the death of Alexander the Great (under whom he served as a general).
		In Nicaea a great Greek astronomer Hipparchus was born circa 194 B.C. and circa 240 a Greek mathematician and astronomer Sporus.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/ni/Nicaea.html (886 words)

	Nicaea :: Definition for Nicaea (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Iznik (which derives from the former Greek name, Nicaea) is a city in Turkey which is known primarily as the site of two major meetings (or Ecumenical councils) in the early history of the Christian church.
		Nicaea suffered much from earthquakes in 358, 362 and 368; after the last of which, it was restored by the emperor Valens.
		Nicaea remains a titular see of the Roman Catholic Church (Catholicism), Nicaenus; the seat has been vacant since the death of its last bishop in 1976.
	timothyministries.org /theologicaldictionary/references.asp?theword=Nicaea (1411 words)

	285 A.D. (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Sporus was about forty-five years old at the time, and would die fifteen years later.
		He was a professor at the University of Alexandria and his primary interest was solving the problems of the duplication of the cube and the quadrature of the circle.
		Astronomy was another science that caught Sporus’ attention and he worked on calculating the size on the sun and various comets.
	faculty.oxy.edu /jquinn/home/Math490/Timeline/285AD.html (163 words)

	Nicaea Info - Bored Net - Boredom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-25)
		Several other of Alexander generals (known together as the Diadochi) later conspired to remove Antigonus, and after defeating him the area was given to Thessalian general Lysimachus (Lysimakhos) (circa 355 BC-281 BC) in 301 BC as his share of the lands.
		The church of Haghia Sophia was built by Justinian I in the middle of the city in the 6th century (modelled after the larger Hagia Sophia in Constantinople), and it was there that the Second Council of Nicaea met in 787 to discuss the issues of iconography.
		Theodore I and his successors slowly expanded their domains, and in 1259 Michael VIII Palaeologus usurped the throne.
	www.borednet.com /e/n/encyclopedia/n/ni/nicaea.html (846 words)

	Sporus
		His solution of the problem of duplicating the cube is similar to that of
		Hence we cannot regard as appropriate the censure of Sporus of Nicaea, who seems to charge
		Archimedes with having failed to determine with accuracy the length of the straight line which is equal to the circumference of the circle., to judge by his passage in his Keria where Sporus observes that his own teacher, meaning Philon of Gadara, reduced the matter to more accurate numerical expression than
	www.educ.fc.ul.pt /icm/icm2003/icm14/Sporus.htm (298 words)

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		Sporus taught Pappus of Alexandria and we know of him only through Pappus's writings.
		Sporus worked mainly on squaring the circle and duplicating the cube.
		Sporus criticised Archimedes for not producing a more accurate approximation of.
	www.angelfire.com /ar/atay/NICAEA/MathCoin.html (418 words)

	Sporus of Nicaea Summary
		Sporus developed his own solutions to the problems of doubling the cube and squaring the circle, and it was in the latter context that he produced the most notable among his critical comments regarding the work of others.
		In addition to his work as a mathematician, Sporus wrote on the Sun and the comets.
		Sporus of Nicaea from Science and Its Times.
	www.bookrags.com /Sporus_of_Nicaea (209 words)

	History of Mathematics: Chronology of Mathematicians
		Banu Musa (Muhammad, Ahmand, and al-Hasan, sons of Musa ibn Shakir) (ninth century) *SB
		Jean Bernoullii (1710-1790) (son of Jean 1667-1748) *MT
		Jean Bernoullie (1744-1807) (son of Jean 1710-1790) *MT
	aleph0.clarku.edu /~djoyce/mathhist/chronology.html (693 words)

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