Apollonii Pergaei quae Graece exstant cum commentariis antiquis: Volume 1 Paperback / softback
by Apollonius of Perga, Johan Ludvig Heiberg
Part of the Cambridge Library Collection - Classics series
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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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- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:468 pages, 20 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/06/2013
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- ISBN:9781108061841
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Out of stock
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:468 pages, 20 Line drawings, unspecified
- Publisher:Cambridge University Press
- Publication Date:27/06/2013
- Category:
- ISBN:9781108061841
