A history of Greek mathematics Vol.II from Aristarchus to Diophantus by Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1921
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MACEDONIA is GREECE and will always be GREECE- (if they are desperate to steal a name, Monkeydonkeys suits them just fine)
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DIOCLES 201<br />
unless we have a fragment <strong>from</strong> it in the Fragmentum<br />
mathematicum Bobieme. But Moslem writers regarded Diocles<br />
as the discoverer <strong>of</strong> the parabolic burning-mirror; 'the ancients',<br />
says al Singari (Sachawi, Ansarl), made mirrors <strong>of</strong> plane<br />
'<br />
surfaces. Some made them concave (i.e. spherical) until<br />
Diocles (Diiiklis) showed and proved that, if the surface <strong>of</strong><br />
these mirrors has its curvature in the form <strong>of</strong> a parabola, they<br />
then have the greatest power and burn most strongly. There<br />
is a work on this subject composed <strong>by</strong> Ibn al-Haitham.' This<br />
work survives in Arabic and in Latin translations, and is<br />
reproduced <strong>by</strong> Heiberg and Wiedemann 1 ; it does not, however,<br />
mention the name <strong>of</strong> Diocles, but only those <strong>of</strong> Archimedes<br />
and Anthemius. Ibn al-Haitham says that famous<br />
men like Archimedes and Anthemius had used mirrors made<br />
up <strong>of</strong> a number <strong>of</strong> spherical rings ; afterwards, he adds, they<br />
considered the form <strong>of</strong> curves which would reflect rays <strong>to</strong> one<br />
point, and found that the concave surface <strong>of</strong><br />
a paraboloid <strong>of</strong><br />
revolution has this property. It is curious <strong>to</strong> find Ibn al-<br />
Haitham saying that the ancients had not set out the pro<strong>of</strong>s<br />
sufficiently, nor the method <strong>by</strong> which they discovered them,<br />
words which almost exactly recall those <strong>of</strong> Anthemius himself.<br />
Nevertheless the whole course <strong>of</strong> Ibn al-Haitham' s pro<strong>of</strong>s is<br />
on the <strong>Greek</strong> model, Apollonius being actually quoted <strong>by</strong> name<br />
in the pro<strong>of</strong> <strong>of</strong> the main property <strong>of</strong> the parabola required,<br />
namely that the tangent at any point <strong>of</strong> the curve makes<br />
equal angles with the focal distance <strong>of</strong> the point and the<br />
straight line drawn through it parallel <strong>to</strong> the axis. A pro<strong>of</strong><br />
<strong>of</strong> the property actually survives in the <strong>Greek</strong> Fragmentum<br />
mathematicum Bobiense, which evidently came <strong>from</strong> some<br />
treatise on the parabolic burning-mirror ; but Ibn al-Haitham<br />
does not seem <strong>to</strong> have had even this fragment at his disposal,<br />
since his pro<strong>of</strong> takes a different course, distinguishing three<br />
different cases, reducing the property <strong>by</strong> analysis <strong>to</strong> the<br />
known property AN = AT, and then working out the synthesis.<br />
The pro<strong>of</strong> in the Fragmentum is worth giving. It is<br />
substantially as follows, beginning with the preliminary lemma<br />
that, if the tangent at any point P, meets the axis at T FT} x<br />
and if AS be measured along the axis <strong>from</strong> the vertex A<br />
equal <strong>to</strong> \AL where AL is the parameter, then SF = ST<br />
y<br />
1<br />
Bibliotheca mathematica, x 3 , 1910, pp. 201-37*<br />
202 SUCCESSORS OF -THE GREAT GEOMETERS<br />
Let PN be the ordinate <strong>from</strong> P ;<br />
<strong>to</strong> the axis meeting PT in Y, and join SY.<br />
Now<br />
But PlY = 2AY (since JJV= JT)<br />
therefore A Y 2 = TA .<br />
draw A Y at right angles<br />
PN*=AL.AN<br />
= 4 AS. AN<br />
= 4AS.AT (since A# = AT).<br />
AS,<br />
and the angle TYS is right.<br />
The triangles SYT, SYP being right-angled, and TY being<br />
equal <strong>to</strong> YP, it follows that SP = ST.<br />
With the same figure, let BP be a ray parallel <strong>to</strong> AN<br />
impinging on the curve at P. It is required <strong>to</strong> prove that<br />
the angles <strong>of</strong> incidence and reflection (<strong>to</strong> S) are equal.<br />
We have SP = ST, so that the angles at the points T, P<br />
'<br />
are equal. So ', says the author, ' are the angles TPA, KPR<br />
[the angles between the tangent and the curve on each side <strong>of</strong><br />
the point <strong>of</strong> contact]. Let the difference between the angles<br />
be taken ; therefore the angles SPA, RPB which remain<br />
[again mixed ' ' angles] are equal. Similarly we shall show<br />
that all the lines drawn parallel <strong>to</strong> .4$ will be reflected at<br />
equal angles <strong>to</strong> the point S.'<br />
The author then proceeds :<br />
'<br />
Thus burning-mirrors constructed<br />
with the surface <strong>of</strong> impact (in the form) <strong>of</strong> the<br />
section <strong>of</strong> a right-angled cone may easily, in the manner