Carpus of Antioch

Carpus of Antioch was an ancient Greek astronomer and mathematician of the 1st or 2nd century AD

He wrote a now lost work ( Astro logiké pragmateia ), quoted in Proclus. There he asserts the primacy of the visual evidence of structures on the formal derivation of theorems. Since he is also known there as a mechanic (Greek Μηχανικὀς ), it can be assumed that he was concerned with the construction of astronomical instruments.

In addition, he dealt with the quadrature of the circle. His designs are no longer comprehensible, but resemble the quadratrix of Hippias and the spiral of Archimedes.