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Edmond Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius's Conics - Translation and Commentary (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
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Edmond Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius's Conics - Translation and Commentary (Paperback, 2012 ed.)
Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
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Apollonius's Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced
mathematics in antiquity. The work comprised eight books, of which
four have come down to us in their original Greek and three in
Arabic. By the time the Arabic translations were produced, the
eighth book had already been lost. In 1710, Edmond Halley, then
Savilian Professor of Geometry at Oxford, produced an edition of
the Greek text of the Conics of Books I-IV, a translation into
Latin from the Arabic versions of Books V-VII, and a reconstruction
of Book VIII. The present work provides the first complete English
translation of Halley's reconstruction of Book VIII with
supplementary notes on the text. It also contains 1) an
introduction discussing aspects of Apollonius's Conics 2) an
investigation of Edmond Halley's understanding of the nature of his
venture into ancient mathematics, and 3) an appendices giving a
brief account of Apollonius's approach to conic sections and his
mathematical techniques. This book will be of interest to students
and researchers interested in the history of ancient Greek
mathematics and mathematics in the early modern period.
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