Conic Sections in Early Modern Europe. First Part: Philippe de la Hire on Circles

Christopher Baltus ()
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Christopher Baltus: State University of New York at Oswego, Department of Mathematics

Chapter Chapter 5 in Collineations and Conic Sections, 2020, pp 59-70 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract The early modern study of conic sections began with the publication of edited translations, into Latin, of the first four books of the Conics of Apollonius in the sixteenth century, especially the translation by Commandinus, of Urbino, in 1566. Books 5, 6, and 7 were later found in Arabic manuscripts. Book 8 seems lost, although that loss has prompted several mathematicians, over the centuries, to propose their own restorations.

Date: 2020
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-030-46287-1_5

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