Coniques - Tome 2.2: Livre IV. Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et traduction du texte arabe

Book IV of the Konika consists of two parts; the first presents a theory of poles and polars, the second deals with the number of intersections and points of contact in a conic section. Previously the book was only extant as the very unreliable text of a Greek commentary by Eutocius. Roshdi Rashed here presents for the first time an edition of an Arabic translation based on a text independent of this Greek version. This is a valuable re-discovery, for which reason it is published here as a separate volume. It contains an edition princeps of the Arabic text, together with a faithful translation and a historical-mathematical commentary.

About the author

Roshdi Rashed, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique und Université de Paris VII, Paris, Frankreich.

Product details

• Authors: Apollonius von Perge
• Assisted by: Micheline Decorps-Foulquier (Editor), Michel Federspiel (Editor), Roshd Rashed (Editor), Roshdi Rashed (Editor)
• Publisher: De Gruyter
• Languages: French, Ancient Greek, Arab
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9783110199383
• ISBN: 978-3-11-019938-3
• No. of pages: 319
• Dimensions: 170 mm x 26 mm x 240 mm
• Weight: 681 g
• Illustrations: Numerous figs.
• Sets: Coniques; Coniques; Apollonius de Perge: Apollonius de Perge, Coniques
• Series: Scientia Graeco-Arabica; Scientia Graeco-Arabica; ISSN; Apollonius de Perge: Apollonius de Perge, Coniques
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > History > Antiquity