Livre IV. Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et traduction du texte arabe
( Scientia Graeco-Arabica )
Publication series ：Scientia Graeco-Arabica
Author： Roshdi Rashed
Publisher： De Gruyter
Publication year： 2009
E-ISBN: 9783110217179
P-ISBN(Paperback): 9783110199383
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Keyword： Apollonius of Perge Conic Section Mathematics/in Antiquity
Language： GRC
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Description
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.
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