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Maryland, to which it is adjacent, in 1936 lost its accreditation and was on the brink of bankruptcy. In desperation the board summoned Stringfellow Barr and Scott Buchanan from the University of Chicago, where they had been developing a new theoretical program for instruction of the Classics. Leaping at the opportunity, in 1937 they instituted the “new program” at St. John's, later dubbed the Great Books program, a fixed curriculum that would teach the works of select key contributors to the culture of western civilization. At St. John's, Apollonius came to be taught as himself, not as some adjunct to analytic geometry.
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Heath's work is indispensable. He taught throughout the early 20th century, passing away in 1940, but meanwhile another point of view was developing. St. John's College (Annapolis/Santa Fe), which had been a military school since colonial times, preceding the United States Naval Academy at Annapolis,
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To say that "Apollonius lived toward the end of the hellenistic period" seems to me misleading. The hellenistic period goes from the rise of Alexander to the death of Cleopatra. Therefore Apollonius was right in the middle.
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already exist as redirects to the appropriate section of this article, so the thing to do would be to pick one of them (I'd probably go for the former name, which is more explicit), cut/paste the material about
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Do we really want so much about St. John's College in an article on Apollonius? E.g., do we need to know that they lost their accreditation in 1936? I'm talking about this passage:
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article mentions Apollonius as the inventor of the instrument. But no mention of it here. Could maybe someone add it? Thanks.
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I'm a relative newcomer to Knowledge, so if I were to try it, how would you recommend that I learn how to do that properly?
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template at the top linking to the new article. I'd make the summary here longer than usual for such a section, since
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is so important to the topic of Apollonius. For this one, use an edit summary along the lines of:
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As one of the most historically important mathematics books, it seems to me like
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Next, write a slimmed down summary and leave it behind at this article under
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There's an ongoing discussion about the early history of astrolabes at
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you can see some discussion (albeit not great) about double cones. –
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from this article into there, including any relevant material from
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deserves its own article, just as we have separate articles for
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Thank you, this is clear. I'll give it a shot before long.
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