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Apollonius (Utuqiyus) of Ascalon, skilled in the science of geometry, mentioned by Ibn al-Nadim in the Fihrist 2.
His works
The Fihrist reports that he gathered what he could of the book of Apollonius on conics, and corrected four treatises from it. He also has a commentary on the first treatise of the book of Archimedes on the sphere and the cylinder 2.
The Fihrist also transmits from the Banu Musa that he had good books on geometry, of which nothing reached them 3.
Sources
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p.373
- al-Fihrist of Ibn al-Nadim, p.374
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islam.museum contributors. “Utuqiyus”. islam.museum, https://islam.museum/en/person/utuqiyus/. CC BY-SA 4.0. Accessed 2026-10-17.