Book ID: CBB000340186

Apollonius of Perga's Conica: Text, Context, Subtext (2001)

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Fried, Michael N. (Author)
Unguru, Sabetai (Author)


Brill


Publication Date: 2001
Physical Details: xii + 499 pp., illus., bibl., index
Language: English

Description The first full-length book on Apollonius of Perga's Conica since 1886.


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Review Cuomo, Sarafina (2002) Review of "Apollonius of Perga's Conica: Text, Context, Subtext". British Journal for the History of Science (p. 348). unapi

Review Acerbi, Fabio (2009) Review of "Apollonius of Perga's Conica: Text, Context, Subtext". Isis: International Review Devoted to the History of Science and Its Cultural Influences (p. 646). unapi

Review Taisbak, Christian Marinus (2004) Review of "Apollonius of Perga's Conica: Text, Context, Subtext". Centaurus: International Magazine of the History of Mathematics, Science, and Technology (p. 164). unapi

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Authors & Contributors
Rashed, Roshdi
Fried, Michael N.
Bellosta, Hélène
Apollonius, of Perga
Apollonius
Briend, Jean-Yves
Journals
Science in Context
Bollettino di Storia delle Scienze Matematiche
Archive for History of Exact Sciences
Sudhoffs Archiv: Zeitschrift fuer Wissenschaftsgeschichte
Kwartalnik Historii Nauki i Techniki
British Society for the History of Mathematics Bulletin
Publishers
de Gruyter
Walter de Gruyter
Springer-Verlag
Green Lion Press
Brill
Pennsylvania State University
Concepts
Mathematics
Conic sections
Geometry
Solid geometry
Translations
Arab/Islamic world, civilization and culture
People
Apollonius, of Perga
Pappus of Alexandria
Euclid
Viète, Francois
Serenus, Antinoensis
Ptolemy
Time Periods
Ancient
Medieval
18th century
17th century
10th century
Places
Greece
Rome (Italy)
Great Britain
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