Anthemius of tralles biography sample

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  • Isidorus Miletus was one of the two main Byzantine Greek mathematician, physicist and architects (Anthemius of Tralles was the other).

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    Hagia Sophia, –37

    The church of Hagia Sophia (literally &#;Holy Wisdom&#;) in Constantinople, now Istanbul, was first dedicated in bygd Emperor Constantius, son of the city&#;s founder, kejsare Constantine. Hagia Sophia served as the cathedra, or bishop&#;s seat, of the city. Originally called Megale Ekklesia (Great Church), the name Hagia Sophia came into use around The first church structure was destroyed during riots in ; the second church, built and dedicated in by kejsare Theodosius II, burned down during the Nika revolt of , which caused vast destruction and death throughout the city.

    Immediately after the riots, Emperor Justinian I (r. –65) ordered the church rebuilt. The new building was inaugurated on månad 27, Architects Anthemios of Tralles and Isidoros of Miletos most likely were influenced bygd the mathematical theories of Archimedes (ca. – B.C.).

    The vast, airy naos, or central basilica, with its technically complex system of vaults and semi-domes, culminates in a hi

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    Isidore of Miletus

    5th-century Byzantine Greek architect and mathematician

    Isidore of Miletus (Greek: Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Μιλήσιος; Medieval Greek pronunciation:[iˈsiðorosomiˈlisios]; Latin: Isidorus Miletus) was one of the two main Byzantine Greekmathematician, physicist and architects (Anthemius of Tralles was the other)[1] that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the cathedralHagia Sophia in Constantinople from to He was born c.&#; AD.[2] The creation of an important compilation of Archimedes' works has been attributed to him.[3] The spurious Book XV from Euclid's Elements has been partly attributed to Isidore of Miletus.[4]

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    Isidore of Miletus was a renowned scientist and mathematician before Emperor Justinian I hired him. Isidorus taught stereometry and physics at the universities of Alexandria and then of Constantinople, and wrote a commentary on an older treatise on vaulting.[5]Eutoci

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    Alexander of Tralles

    6th-century Byzantine physician

    Alexander of Tralles (Medieval Greek: Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Τραλλιανός; ca. – ca. ) was one of the most eminent physicians in the Byzantine Empire. His birth date may safely be put in the 6th century AD, for he mentions Aëtius Amidenus,[1] who probably did not write until the end of the 5th or the beginning of the 6th century, and he is himself quoted by Paul of Aegina,[2] who is supposed to have lived in the 7th century; besides which, he is mentioned as a contemporary of Agathias,[3] who set about writing his History in the beginning of the reign of Justin II, about [4]

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    Alexander was born a Greek in Tralles in Asia Minor,[5] and he had the advantage of being brought up under his father Stephanus, who was himself a physician,[6] and also under another person, whose name he does not mention, but to whose son Cosmas he dedicates his chief work,[7]

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