Four Books on Conics (Commandino 1566)
Conicorum Libri Quattuor (Commandino 1566)
Apollonius of Perga; Federico Commandino
Latin
1566
320 pages
First from Latin
English translations of this work exist from another source language, but this specific text has never been translated.
Federico Commandino's 1566 Latin edition of Apollonius's 'Conicorum Libri Quattuor' is a Latin translation of the original Greek text. While the work of Apollonius has been translated into English multiple times (notably by T.L. Heath and R. Catesby Taliaferro), these are translations of the original Greek, not translations of Commandino's specific Latin rendering. No evidence was found of an English translation of Commandino's Latin text itself.
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mathematicsnatural-philosophy
Federico Commandino's 1566 restoration of Apollonius preserves the lost rigor of ancient Greek geometry. It reveals how the ancients defined the conic section not by the cone itself, but by the universal properties of curves.
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