Head Constractor Isibore – Isidore of Miletus
https://wiki.wizard101central.com/wiki/NPC:Head_Constractor_Isibore
https://greatestgreeks.wordpress.com/2016/06/29/isidore-of-miletus-anthemius-of-tralles/
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isidore_of_Miletus
Head Constractor Isibore oversees the Boa Constructors on building projects in Istanboa. He built the Tetrus Prison. He still has copies of the plans for the prison that you need to rescue Teddy Hairkonnen.
Isidore of Miletus was one of the two main Byzantine Greek mathematician, physicist and architects (Anthemius of Tralles was the other) that Emperor Justinian I commissioned to design the cathedral Hagia Sophia in Constantinople from 532 to 537. He was born c. 475 AD. The creation of an important compilation of Archimedes’ works has been attributed to him.
Painting by Nikos Engonopoulos, 1970.
Isidore of Miletus was a renowned scientist and mathematician before Emperor Justinian I hired him. Isidorus taught stereometry and physics at the universities, first of Alexandria then of Constantinople, and wrote a commentary on an older treatise on vaulting. Eutocius together with Isidore studied Archimedes’ work. Isidore is also renowned for producing the first comprehensive compilation of Archimedes’ work, the Archimedes palimpsest survived to the present.
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Head Constractor Isibore image is from Wizard101, and is copyright of KingsIsle Entertainment
Anthemius and Isidore by Nikos Engonopoulos is borrowed from the Greatest Greeks blog. It is copyright 1970 by Nikos Engonopoulos
Roof figure by Ludwig Simek image is copyright by Hubertl. It is borrowed from Wikipedia and is shared under the CC BY-SA 4.0 Creative Commons license.
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