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Edmond Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius's Conics: Translation and Commentary

Edmond Halley's Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius's Conics: Translation and Commentary

Fried, Michael N.

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Series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physic

General MathematicsGeometry

ISBN10: 1461429870
ISBN13: 9781461429876
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 27 2013
Pages: 134
Weight: 0.47
Height: 0.31 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

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.

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