References for Diocles

1. K H Dannenfeldt, G J Toomer, Biography in Dictionary of Scientific Biography (New York 1970-1990).
2. Biography in Encyclopaedia Britannica. [Available on the Web]

Books:

3. T L Heath, A History of Greek Mathematics (2 Vols.) (Oxford, 1921).
4. G J Toomer, Diocles On Burning Mirrors, Sources in the History of Mathematics and the Physical Sciences 1 (New York, 1976).

Articles:

5. J P Hogendijk, Diocles and the geometry of curved surfaces, Centaurus 28 (3-4) (1985), 169-184.
6. O Neugebauer, Note on Diocles' 'burning mirror', in From ancient omens to statistical mechanics, Acta Hist. Sci. Nat. Med. 39 (Copenhagen, 1987), 37-42.

April 1999