Title
Treatise on conic sections
Kōnika English
Kōnika English
Creator
Apollonius, of Perga
Contributor
Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940
Publisher
Cambridge, University Press
Type of Resource
text
Abstract/Description
Master microform held by: UnM.
"List of principal authorities": p. [xiii]
Introduction: pt. I. The earlier history of conic sections among the Greeks. 1. The discovery of conic sections; Menaechmus. 2. Aristaeus and Euclid. 3. Archimedes. pt. II. Introduction to the conics of Apollonius. 1. The author and his own account of the conics. 2. General characteristics. 3. The methods of Apollonius. 4. The construction of a conic by means of tangents. 5. The three-line and four-line locus. 6. The construction of a conic through five points. Appendix: Notes on the terminology of Greek geometry.--The conics of Apollonius.
"List of principal authorities": p. [xiii]
Introduction: pt. I. The earlier history of conic sections among the Greeks. 1. The discovery of conic sections; Menaechmus. 2. Aristaeus and Euclid. 3. Archimedes. pt. II. Introduction to the conics of Apollonius. 1. The author and his own account of the conics. 2. General characteristics. 3. The methods of Apollonius. 4. The construction of a conic by means of tangents. 5. The three-line and four-line locus. 6. The construction of a conic through five points. Appendix: Notes on the terminology of Greek geometry.--The conics of Apollonius.
Subjects and keywords
Conic sections
Mathematics, Greek
Mathematics, Greek
Format
Language material
Electronic resource
Electronic resource
Language
English
Rights
Public domain only when viewed in the US. Learn more at http://www.hathitrust.org/access_use
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Identifier
LC call number: QA31 .A5 1896
(MiU)004516218
sdr-miu004516218
(OCoLC)704467362
(RLIN)MIFG92-B6228
Hathi: 004516218
(MiU)004516218
sdr-miu004516218
(OCoLC)704467362
(RLIN)MIFG92-B6228
Hathi: 004516218