Apollonii Pergæi Conicorum libri quattuor
Apollonius, of Perga; Eutocius, of Ascalon; Pappus, of Alexandria; Commandino, Federico; Serenus, Antinoensis
Ex Officina Alexandri Benatii, Bononiæ, 1566
Ex Officina Alexandri Benatii, Bononiæ, 1566
101. Apollonius wrote this great mathematical work in the third century,
BC, which is about conic sections, or the planes that result from various
ways of slicing through and getting a 2-dimensional cross section of a cone.
Ellipses, circles, parabolas, and hyperbolas are examples of conic sections.
Of the 8 books that made up the Conics, only the first four were known to
exist when this book, the first edition of Apollonius, was printed. Books 5-7
were later discovered in the 17th century.
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Ex Officina Alexandri Benatii, Bononiæ, 1566
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