Treatise on conic sections / Edited in modern notation, with introductions including an essay on the earlier history of the subject, by T. L. Heath

Author:: Apollonius, of Perga
Published:: Cambridge : University press, 1896.
Physical Description:: clxxp., 1 leaf,254 pages : frontispiece,diagrams ; 23 cm
Additional Creators:: Heath, Thomas Little, 1861-

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Introduction: pt.I. The earlier history of conic sections among the Greeks. 1. The discovery of conic sections; Menaechmus.2. Aristeaus and Euclid. 3. Archimedes.--pt.II. Introduction to the conics of Apollonius. 1. The author and his own account of the conics. 2. General characteristics. 3. The methods of Apollonius. 4. The construction of a conic by means of tangents. 5. The three-line and four-line locus. 6. The construction of a conic through five points. Appendix: Notes on the terminology of Greek geometry. The conics of Apollonius.

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"List of principal authorities": p.[xiii].

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