Hippocrates of Chios

Dietmar Herrmann ()

Chapter Chapter 5 in Ancient Mathematics, 2022, pp 63-69 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract HippocratesHippocrates of Chios—not to be confused with his namesake, the physician Hippocrates of Kos—lived in the second half of the fifth century BC. He was a somewhat naive businessman who lost his fortune and therefore moved to Athens for studies. Aristotle reports in [Ethics ad Eudem., VII, c.14]. So Hippocrates was a good geometer, while he seems to have been simple-minded and ignorant in the rest; at least, it is said, through credulity he lost a large sum of money to the customs officers of Byzantium.

Date: 2022
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-66494-0_5

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