01536cam a22002891 4500 3579303 BD-DhUL 20140902092635.0 851219s1896 enka b 000 0 eng 03015050 DLC/ICU ICU DLC BD-DhUL eng ara grc QA31 .A5 1896 516.2 HEA Heath T. L. Conics. English Apollonius of Perga : Treatise on conic sections / Edited in modern notation, with introductions including an essay on the earlier history of the subject, by T.L. Heath ... Cambridge, University press, 1896. clxx p., 1 l., 254 p. front., diagrs. 23 cm. "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. Mathematics, Greek. Conic sections. Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940, ed. 7 cbc orignew u ocip 19 y-gencatlg ddc BK 7117 7117 0 0 ddc 0 516_200000000000000_HEA 0 NFIC 12319 DUSL DUSL GEN 2014-09-02 516.2 HEA A18138 2014-09-02 2014-09-02 BK