List of Byzantine scholars
This is a list of Byzantine scientists and other scholars .
Before the 9th century
Most important scholars known before the Macedonian Renaissance were active under the Justinian dynasty .
Theon of Alexandria (335–405), mathematician
Hypatia (370–415), mathematician, astronomer, philosopher
Anthemius of Tralles (c. 474–before 558), mathematician and architect of Hagia Sophia [1]
Eutocius of Ascalon (c. 480–c. 540), mathematician
John Philoponus (490–570), mathematician, physicist, theologian
Isidore of Miletus (6th century), mathematicist, physicist and architect of Hagia Sophia
Cassianus Bassus (6th–7th century), author of Geoponika [2]
Leontios (died 706), emperor, astronomer, mathematician and engineer
George of Pisidia (6th–7th century), scholar, zoologist and astronomer
Timotheos of Gaza (6th–7th century), zoologist
Stephen of Byzantium (6th–7th century), geographer
Paul of Aegina (7th century), physician
Callinicus of Heliopolis (7th century), architect; invented the Greek fire
Stephen of Alexandria (7th century), mathematician and astronomer
Theophilus Protospatharius (7th century), physician
The Macedonian Renaissance
The Macedonian Renaissance occurred in the period of the Macedonian dynasty from 867 to 1056.
The Komnenian period and after
The Komnenian period ranged from 1081 to about 1185.
The Palaiologian Renaissance
The Palaiologian Renaissance was mostly contemporary with the Renaissance of the 12th century . The Palaiologos dynasty ruled from c. 1260 to 1453. A number of Greek scholars contributed to the establishment of this renaissance also in Western Europe.
Demetrios Pepagomenos (1200–1300), zoologist, botanologist and pharmacist
George Akropolites (1220–1282), astronomer
Gregory Chioniades (died 1302), mathematician and astronomer
Manuel Holobolos (1230–1305), scholar, teacher
George Pachymeres (1242–1310)
Manuel Moschopoulos (13th–beginning of the 14th century) grammarian
Constantinos Lykites (13th–14th century), astronomer
John Pediasimos (13th–14th century), mathematician
Nikephoros Choumnos (c. 1250/55–1327), scholar, meteorologist and physicist
Maximus Planudes (1260–c. 1305), grammarian and theologian,
Theodore Metochites (1270–1332), physician and mathematician
Barlaam of Seminara (c. 1290–1348), mathematician and astronomer
Nicephorus Gregoras (1295–1359/60), mathematician and astronomer
Demetrius Triclinius (before c. 1300), grammarian with knowledge of astronomy,
Thomas Magister (14th century), grammarian
Theodore of Melitene (1320–1393), astronomer
Isaac Argyros (1310–1372), mathematician and astronomer
John VI Kantakouzenos (reigned 1347–1355), historian
Manuel Chrysoloras (c. 1355–1415), translator, philosopher
Joannes Chortasmenos (1370–1437), scholar, mathematician and astronomer
See also
References
^ Boyer, Carl B. (1991) [1989]. "Revival and Decline of Greek Mathematics". A History of Mathematics (2nd ed.). New York: Wiley. p. 193. ISBN 978-0-471-54397-8 . "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, ISBN 0-313-32437-9 ), 294–95.
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