Treatise on conic sections Heath T. L. creator Heath, Thomas Little Sir 1861-1940 ed. text bibliography enk Cambridge University press 1896 monographic eng grc

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clxx p., 1 l., 254 p. front., diagrs. 23 cm. 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. Edited in modern notation, with introductions including an essay on the earlier history of the subject, by T.L. Heath ... "List of principal authorities": p. [xiii] Mathematics, Greek Conic sections QA31 .A5 1896 516.2 HEA 03015050 DLC/ICU 851219 20140902092635.0 3579303