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"Apollonius"

Alexandria Series

Height 3.5 in

Mass 439 g

Fired High

Glaze Clear

Started 6/15/97

Finished 2/10/98

Style Santa Monica

Series Alexandria

This piece is named for the great geometer, Apollonius (262 BC - 190 BC) who introduced the terms, parabola, ellipse and hyperbola in his most famous work, "Conics." More than 1,300 years later, astronomer Johannes Kepler depended on Apollonius's work to prove that the orbits of the planets were elliptical. Apollonius's contributions are widely used by mathematicians today.