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He was born in Messine (also Messana, Messene; present-day Messina).

Dicaearchus was Aristotle's student in Lyceum. His work is almost lost. He made geometric constructions of a hyperbola and a parabolaA parabola is a conic section generated by the intersection of a cone, and a plane tangent to the cone or parallel to some plane tangent to the cone. If the plane is itself tangent to the cone, one would obtain a degenerate parabola, a line. A parabola ca and worked mainly in the field of cartographyCartography (or mapmaking is the study and practice of making maps or globes. Maps have traditionally been made using pen and paper, but the advent and spread of computers has revolutionized cartography. Most commercial quality maps are now made with map, where he was among the first to use geographical coordinatesThe geographic (earth-mapping) coordinate system is a spherical coordinate system which is aligned with the spin axis of the Earth. It defines two angles measured from the center of the Earth. One angle, called the latitude, measures the angle between any.