Definition:Cycloid/Historical Note

Historical Note on Cycloid
Some sources suggest that the cycloid may first have been investigated by, in the course of developing a technique of Squaring the Circle.

subsequently raised interest in it in the early $1600$s.

He named the curve, but seems not to have actually discovered any of its interesting properties.

He passed on his interest to, among others.

in turn suggested it to and others of his friends in the Académie Parisienne as an object worth investigating.

Subsequently it was studied in detail over the next couple of centuries by such as, , , , , , , , , and many others.

For various fanciful reasons, the cycloid has been called the Helen of Geometry.