^Boyer, Carl B. (1991) [1989]. "Revival and Decline of Greek Mathematics".
A History of Mathematics (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley. p. 193.
ISBN978-0-471-54397-8. "The commentary by Eutocius on the Conics of
Apollonius was dedicated to Anthemius of Tralles (t534), an able mathematician and architect of St. Sophia of Constantinople, who described the string construction of the ellipse and wrote a work On Burning-mirrors in which the focal properties of the parabola are described." Although Anthemius died not 534 but before 558, cf.
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, p. 109.
^Bassus, Cassianus (1781).
Geōponika (in Greek). sumtu Caspari Fritsch.
^Marcus Louis Rautman (2006), Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire (Greenwood Publishing Group,
ISBN0-313-32437-9), 294–95.
^Boyer, Carl B. (1991) [1989]. "Revival and Decline of Greek Mathematics".
A History of Mathematics (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley. p. 193.
ISBN978-0-471-54397-8. "The commentary by Eutocius on the Conics of
Apollonius was dedicated to Anthemius of Tralles (t534), an able mathematician and architect of St. Sophia of Constantinople, who described the string construction of the ellipse and wrote a work On Burning-mirrors in which the focal properties of the parabola are described." Although Anthemius died not 534 but before 558, cf.
Oxford Dictionary of Byzantium, p. 109.
^Bassus, Cassianus (1781).
Geōponika (in Greek). sumtu Caspari Fritsch.
^Marcus Louis Rautman (2006), Daily Life in the Byzantine Empire (Greenwood Publishing Group,
ISBN0-313-32437-9), 294–95.