Edmond Halley’s Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius’s Conics Translation and Commentary /
Apollonius’s Conics was one of the greatest works of advanced mathematics in antiquity. The work comprised eight books, four of which 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,...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | English |
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New York, NY :
Springer New York : Imprint: Springer,
2012.
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| Series: | Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
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| Online Access: | Full Text via HEAL-Link |
