Apollonius Of Pergas Conica Text Context Subtext 1st Edition Michael Fried by Michael Fried, Sabetai Unguru 9789004350991, 9004350993 instant download after payment.

This volume takes a new look at one of the greatest works of Hellenistic mathematics, Apollonius of Perga's Conica. It provides a long overdue alternative to H.G. Zeuthen's Die Lehre von den Kegelschnitten im Altertum.
The central part of the volume contains a historically sensitive analysis and interpretation of the entire Conica,
both from the standpoint of its individual books and of the text as a
whole. Particular attention is given to Books V-VII, which have had
scant treatment until now. Two chapters in the volume concern
histioriographic issues connected with the Conica in particular and Greek mathematics in general.
Although the volume is intended primarily for historians of ancient
mathematics, its approach is fresh and engaging enough to be of interest
also to historians, philosophers, linguists, and open-minded
mathematicians.