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Chapter 2 Apollonius’s Conics

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Abstract

If there is some uncertainty about Halley’s birth date, we are really in the dark about Apollonius’s. The most one can say is that Apollonius of Perga was born around the middle of the third century B.C.E. and died sometime at the beginning of the second. Even this is only a matter of inference, based partly on a comment by Apollonius’s late commentator and editor, Eutocius (c. 480–540 C.E.)—himself relying on yet another source, a certain Heraclius—that Apolloniuswas born “… in the time of Ptolemy Euergetes… ” whose reign we know to have been from 246 to 221 B.C.E.

Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationSources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
PublisherSpringer
Pages7-11
Number of pages5
DOIs
StatePublished - 1 Jan 2012

Publication series

NameSources and Studies in the History of Mathematics and Physical Sciences
ISSN (Print)2196-8810
ISSN (Electronic)2196-8829

Keywords

  • Axial Triangle
  • Book Versus
  • Conic Section
  • Greek Mathematic
  • Modern Reader

ASJC Scopus subject areas

  • Mathematics (miscellaneous)
  • Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)
  • History and Philosophy of Science

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