Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- LIST OF PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES
- Contents
- PART I THE EARLIER HISTORY OF CONIC SECTIONS AMONG THE GREEKS
- PART II INTRODUCTION TO THE CONICS OF APOLLONIUS
- CHAPTER I THE AUTHOR AND HIS OWN ACCOUNT OF THE CONICS
- CHAPTER II GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- CHAPTER III THE METHODS OF APOLLONIUS
- CHAPTER IV THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CONIC BY MEANS OF TANGENTS
- CHAPTER V THE THREE-LINE AND FOUR-LINE LOCUS
- CHAPTER VI THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CONIC THROUGH FIVE POINTS
- APPENDIX NOTES ON THE TERMINOLOGY OF GREEK GEOMETRY
- THE CONICS OF APOLLONIUS
CHAPTER III - THE METHODS OF APOLLONIUS
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- LIST OF PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES
- Contents
- PART I THE EARLIER HISTORY OF CONIC SECTIONS AMONG THE GREEKS
- PART II INTRODUCTION TO THE CONICS OF APOLLONIUS
- CHAPTER I THE AUTHOR AND HIS OWN ACCOUNT OF THE CONICS
- CHAPTER II GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
- CHAPTER III THE METHODS OF APOLLONIUS
- CHAPTER IV THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CONIC BY MEANS OF TANGENTS
- CHAPTER V THE THREE-LINE AND FOUR-LINE LOCUS
- CHAPTER VI THE CONSTRUCTION OF A CONIC THROUGH FIVE POINTS
- APPENDIX NOTES ON THE TERMINOLOGY OF GREEK GEOMETRY
- THE CONICS OF APOLLONIUS
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- Treatise on Conic SectionsEdited in Modern Notation with Introductions, Including an Essay on the Earlier History of the Subject, pp. ci - cxxixPublisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013