In the late 17th century, Edward Bernard discovered a version of De Rationis Sectione in the Bodleian Library.
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Several have tried to restore the text to discover Apollonius's solution, among them Snellius (Willebrord Snell, Leiden, 1698); Alexander Anderson of Aberdeen, in the supplement to his Apollonius Redivivus (Paris, 1612); and Robert Simson in his Opera quaedam reliqua (Glasgow, 1776), by far the best attempt.
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# Conics: Books I–III translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro, published by Green Lion Press (ISBN 1-888009-05-5).
Apollonius: Conics, books V to VII. The Arabic translation of the lost Greek original in the version of the Banū Mūsā.
Apollonius | Apollonius of Perga | Apollonius of Rhodes | Apollonius the Sophist | Apollonius Dyscolus |
With Giovanni Alfonso Borelli he wrote a Latin translation of the 5th, 6th and 7th books of the Conics by the geometrician Apollonius of Perga (1661).
His library can at least partially be reconstructed: Archimedes, Euclid, Plato, Paul of Alexandria, Theon of Alexandria, Proclus, Porphyry, Apollonius of Perga, the lost Mechanics of Quirinus and Marcellus, and possibly Thucydides.