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Isidore of Miletus

Roof figure by Ludwig Simek at the Kunsthistorisches Museum, Vienna (Museumsstraße)
The vaults in the Hagia Sophia, originally designed by Isidore of Miletus.

Isidore of Miletus (Greek: Ἰσίδωρος ὁ Μιλήσιος; Medieval Greek pronunciation: [iˈsiðoros o miˈlisios]; Latin: Isidorus Miletus) was one of the two main Byzantine Greek mathematician, physicist and architects (Anthemius of Tralles was the other)[1] that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the cathedral Hagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532 to 537. He was born c. 475 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]

  1. ^ Beaton, Roderick (2021). The Greeks: A Global History. Faber and Faber. ISBN 978-0-571-35358-3. The creation of two Greek architects from Anatolia, Isidore of Miletus and Anthemius of Tralles, Hagia Sophia successfully marries the old Greek science of theoretical geometry to Roman skills of practical engineering.
  2. ^ Cameron, Alan (1990). Isidore of Miletus and Hypatia: On the Editing of Mathematical texts. p. 106.
  3. ^ Reviel Netz (2004). The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder: Translation and Commentary. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9780521661607.
  4. ^ Boyer (1991). "Euclid of Alexandria". A History of Mathematics. pp. 130–131.

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