Heliodorus of Larissa (fl. 3rd century?) was a Greek mathematician, and the author of a short treatise on optics which is still extant.
Biography Nothing is known about the life of Heliodorus.John Aikin, William Enfield, et al., (1804), General biography: or, Lives, critical and historical, of the most ..., Volume 5, page 102 He was a native of Larissa,The prosopography of the later Roman Empire: A.D. 260-395: Volume 1, (1987), page 531 and he must have lived after the time of Claudius Ptolemy, whom he quotes. His short treatise on optics is little more than a commentary on Euclid.David Eugene Smith, (1958), History of mathematics, page 340 It was edited by one Damianus, who was either his son or his pupil. The first printed edition, in Greek and Latin, was published in Paris in 1657 with illustrative notes by Erasmus Bartholinus.
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See also Domninus of Larissa
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