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Apollonii Pergaei Quae Graece Exstant Cum Commentariis Antiquis: Volume 1

Apollonii Pergaei Quae Graece Exstant Cum Commentariis Antiquis: Volume 1

Apollonius of Perga
Heiberg, Johan Ludvig

Paperback

Series: Cambridge Library Collection - Classics

PhilosophyGeometry

ISBN10: 1108061842
ISBN13: 9781108061841
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Jun 27 2013
Pages: 468
Weight: 1.30
Height: 1.04 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.50
Language: English
The Greek astronomer and geometrician Apollonius of Perga (c.262-c.190 BCE) produced pioneering written work on conic sections in which he demonstrated mathematically the generation of curves and their fundamental properties. His innovative terminology gave us the terms 'ellipse', 'hyperbola' and 'parabola'. The Danish scholar Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928), a professor of classical philology at the University of Copenhagen, prepared important editions of works by Euclid, Archimedes and Ptolemy, among others. Published between 1891 and 1893, this two-volume work contains the definitive Greek text of the first four books of Apollonius' treatise together with a facing-page Latin translation. (The fifth, sixth and seventh books survive only in Arabic translation, while the eighth is lost entirely.) Volume 1 contains the first three books, with the editor's introductory matter in Latin.

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