Euclid's Elements of Geometry, Plane and Solid

Archytas also wrote Elements himself, and his doubling of the cube is read in Eutocius; his was also that singular praise, that he was almost the first to transfer Mathematics to human uses; whence also a wooden dove made by him is read in Gellius to have flown. *Those who followed him, Dædalus and other artificers, provided matter for the tales of poets. Archytas, moreover, was both a Mathematician and a commander of an army, who indeed in his country's wars, led the forces of his citizens five times and won five times. Only the name of Neoclides is celebrated, perhaps more illustrious for his disciple Leon than for his own inventions. Leon indeed wrote out, increased, and made more apt for use the elements of the whole of Mathematics. Wherefore, he ought justly to be counted among the principal founders of the elements.

Eudoxus of Cnidus, a contemporary of the aforementioned, was great in Arithmetic, and (if we believe the Greek Scholiast) we owe the entire Fifth book to him; he likewise wrote Elements; he made them more general and augmented the sections initiated by Plato; moreover, he stood as the first fabricator of astronomical hypotheses, and he derived the sources of Geometry, like Archytas above, to organic and mechanical uses. Amyclas of Heraclea and Menaechmus, and his brother Dinostratus, Helicon of Cyzicus, Theudius, Hermotimus of Colophon, Philippus of Medma, all of them Platonists, made Geometry much more perfect. And Menaechmus indeed discovered the conic sections, and by their help, the two means, the invention of which is preferred by Eutocius to the rest. Theudius and Hermotimus made the elements more universal and augmented them. And yet all these from Plato's Academy brought Mathematical Philosophy to perfection, says Proclus. But also Xenocrates, a student of Plato, and...

* Error: for Archytas flourished many centuries after Dædalus.