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unusual facts about Conics



Abraham Ecchellensis

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).

Apollonius of Perga

# Conics: Books I–III translated by R. Catesby Taliaferro, published by Green Lion Press (ISBN 1-888009-05-5).

Gerald J. Toomer

Apollonius: Conics, books V to VII. The Arabic translation of the lost Greek original in the version of the Banū Mūsā.


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