fl. c. 245 BCE · astronomer · mathematician
Conon of Samos
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Known · AttestedWorked in Alexandria.
In Alexandria: c. 250–240 BCE
Court astronomer of Ptolemy III, friend of Archimedes. When Queen Berenice's dedicated lock of hair vanished from a temple he found it in the sky as a new constellation, the Lock of Berenice, and Callimachus wrote the poem.
Our device: Their emblem is a lock of hair among stars. No portrait of any of these people survives. The emblems are our devices.
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Sources (2)
- Callimachus, Aitia fr. 110 Pfeiffer; Catullus 66
- Archimedes, Quadrature of the Parabola preface