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'<br />

VI<br />

XIV.<br />

CONTENTS<br />

CONTINUED.<br />

B. Apollonius <strong>of</strong> Perga<br />

PAGES 126-196<br />

The text <strong>of</strong> the Conies<br />

126-128<br />

Apollonius's own account <strong>of</strong> the Conks<br />

128-133<br />

Extent <strong>of</strong> claim to originality<br />

132-133<br />

Great generality <strong>of</strong> treatment<br />

133<br />

Analysis <strong>of</strong> the Conies<br />

133-175<br />

Book I<br />

133-148<br />

Conies obtained in the most general way from<br />

oblique cone<br />

134-138<br />

New names, parabola '<br />

........<br />

'<br />

', ellipse ', '<br />

hyperbola 138-139<br />

Fundamental properties equivalent to Cartesian<br />

equations 139-141<br />

Transition to new diameter and tangent at its<br />

141-147<br />

147-148<br />

148-150<br />

150-157<br />

157-158<br />

158-167<br />

159-163<br />

163-164<br />

........<br />

extremity<br />

First appearance <strong>of</strong> principal axes<br />

Book II<br />

Book III<br />

Book IV<br />

BookV<br />

<strong>of</strong> evolute <strong>of</strong> conic ......<br />

Normals as maxima and minima ....<br />

Number <strong>of</strong> normals from a point<br />

Propositions leading immediately to determination<br />

Construction <strong>of</strong> normals .....<br />

BookVL<br />

Book VII<br />

Other works by Apollonius .<br />

(a) On the Cutting -<strong>of</strong>f <strong>of</strong> a Ratio (\6yov dnoTOjxr]),<br />

two Books<br />

(3) On the Cutting-<strong>of</strong>f <strong>of</strong> an Area {\(opiov «7toto/lii/),<br />

two Books .......<br />

(y) On Determinate Section {dia>pi(riJL€vr} r<strong>of</strong>xr]), two<br />

Books<br />

(8) On Contacts or Tangencies {encKpal), two Books .<br />

(e) Plane Loci, two Books<br />

(£) Neuo-fty {Vergings or Inclinations), two Books .<br />

• {r}) Comparison <strong>of</strong> dodecahedron wi'h icosahedron<br />

{&) General Treatise ......<br />

(i) On the Cochlias .......<br />

(k) On Unordered Irrationals . . . . .<br />

Astronomy.........<br />

(X) On the Burning-mirror .<br />

{(i) 'Qkvtokiov 164-166<br />

166-167<br />

167-168<br />

168-174<br />

175-194<br />

175-179<br />

179-180<br />

180-181<br />

181-185<br />

185-189<br />

189-192<br />

192<br />

192-193<br />

193<br />

193<br />

194<br />

194<br />

195-196<br />

XV. THE SUCCESSORS OF THE GREAT GEOMETERS 197-234<br />

Nicomedes<br />

Diocles<br />

Perseus<br />

Isoperimetric figures.<br />

Hypsicles .<br />

Dionysodorus .<br />

Posidonius<br />

Zenodorus<br />

199<br />

200-203<br />

203-206<br />

206-213<br />

213-218<br />

218-219<br />

219-222

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