Overview
- Presents the first complete English translation of Edmond Halley's historic reconstruction of book VIII of Apollonius's Conics
- Serves as an invaluable companion volume to existing literature on the subject
- Will be an asset to any researcher studying the mathematics of ancient Greece
- Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras
Part of the book series: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences (SHMP)
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Table of contents (8 chapters)
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Apollonius of Perga’s On Conics: Book Eight Restored
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Synopsis and Appendices
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About this book
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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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Edmond Halley’s Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius’s Conics
Book Subtitle: Translation and Commentary
Authors: Michael N. Fried
Series Title: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-0146-9
Publisher: Springer New York, NY
eBook Packages: Mathematics and Statistics, Mathematics and Statistics (R0)
Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2012
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-0145-2Published: 02 September 2011
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-2987-6Published: 27 October 2013
eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-0146-9Published: 03 September 2011
Series ISSN: 2196-8810
Series E-ISSN: 2196-8829
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: X, 134
Topics: History of Mathematical Sciences, Geometry