References for Conon

1. I Bulmer-Thomas, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

3. G L Geison, Did Conon of Samos transmit Babylonian observations, Isis (3) (193) 58 (1967), 398-401.
4. T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (2 Vols.) (Oxford, 1921).
5. O Neugebauer, A history of ancient mathematical astronomy (New York, 1975).

April 1999