Edmond Halley’s Reconstruction of the Lost Book of Apollonius’s Conics Translation and Commentary /

• Κύριος συγγραφέας: Fried, Michael N. (Συγγραφέας)
• Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
• Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
• Γλώσσα: English
• Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 2012.
• Σειρά: Sources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
• Θέματα: Mathematics.; Geometry.; History.; History of Mathematical Sciences.

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,...

Πίνακας περιεχομένων:

• I. Introduction
• 1. Edmond Halley: Ancient and Modern
• 2. Apollonius’s Conics
• 3. The Path to Halley
• 4. Halley's General Strategy for Reconstructing Conics, Book VIII
• 5. Halley’s Dialogue with the Past.-6. A Note on the Translation-II. Apollonius of Perga’s On Conics: Book Eight Restored
• III.Synopsis and Appendices.-Synopsis of the Contents of Halley's Conics, Book VIII.-Appendix 1: Terminology and Notions from Greek Mathematics.-Appendix 2: Hippocrates' First Quadrature of a Lune.-References.-Index.