Four Books on Conics (Commandino 1566)

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Apollonius the geometer, born in Perga, which is a city of Pamphylia, at the time of Ptolemy Euergetes, as Heracleides says in the life of Archimedes, who says that Archimedes had previously written and published the first four volumes of the conic elements. But when Apollonius saw that they were not correctly set forth by Archimedes, having made leisure for himself, he followed them up more accurately.