Treatise on conic sections
Subtitle: edited in modern notation, with introductions including an essay on the earlier history of the subject
By: by T.L. Heath ...
Contributors: Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940.
Publisher: Heffer
Published: 1961
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Format: Microform
Number of pages: 254
Subjects: Mathematics, Greek.; Conic sections.
Work titles: Kōnika.
Notes: Master microform held by: UnM.

"List of principal authorities": p. [xiii]

Microfilm. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University Microfilms International, 19--. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: pt. I. The earlier history of conic sections among the Greeks; title: 1. The discovery of conic sections; Menaechmus; title: 2. Aristaeus and Euclid; title: 3. Archimedes; title: pt. II. Introduction to the conics of Apollonius; title: 1. The author and his own account of the conics; title: 2. General characteristics; title: 3. The methods of Apollonius; title: 4. The construction of a conic by means of tangents; title: 5. The three-line and four-line locus; title: 6. The construction of a conic through five points; title: Appendix: Notes on the terminology of Greek geometry; title: The conics of Apollonius.