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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Apollonius, of Perga

Contributor:

Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940, editor.

Standardized Title:

Kōnika. English

Language:

English

Greek, Ancient (to 1453)

Subjects (All):

Mathematics, Greek.

Conic sections.

Physical Description:

clxx pages, 1 leaf, 254 pages : frontispiece, diagrams ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Cambridge : University press, 1896.

Contents:

Introduction: pt. I. The earlier history of conic sections among the Greeks. 1. The discovery of conic sections; Menaechmus. 2. Aristaeus 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.

Notes:

"List of principal authorities": page [xiii]

OCLC:

2021267