APOLLONIUS Pergaeus (fl. 2nd half of 3rd cent.-early 2nd cent. B.C.). Conicorum libri quattuor. Una cum Pappi Alexandrini Lemmatibus, et commentariis Eutocii Ascalonitae. Sereni Antinsensis Philosophi libri duo nunc primum in lucem editi, edited and translated by Federico Commandino, Bologna: Alexander Benacius, 1566, 2°, first Commandino edition, woodcut diagrams in text (perforation on title repeated on +2 and S2, ink-stamp on verso of title, accession number at foot of +2, heavily dampstained throughout), modern library buckram. [Adams A1310; Brunet I, 347; Dibner 101; Honeyman 118; Horblit 4; Norman 57; Riccardi I, 361; Sotheran I, 124] Provenance: JCL

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APOLLONIUS Pergaeus (fl. 2nd half of 3rd cent.-early 2nd cent. B.C.). Conicorum libri quattuor. Una cum Pappi Alexandrini Lemmatibus, et commentariis Eutocii Ascalonitae. Sereni Antinsensis Philosophi libri duo nunc primum in lucem editi, edited and translated by Federico Commandino, Bologna: Alexander Benacius, 1566, 2°, first Commandino edition, woodcut diagrams in text (perforation on title repeated on +2 and S2, ink-stamp on verso of title, accession number at foot of +2, heavily dampstained throughout), modern library buckram. [Adams A1310; Brunet I, 347; Dibner 101; Honeyman 118; Horblit 4; Norman 57; Riccardi I, 361; Sotheran I, 124] Provenance: JCL

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The culmination of classical Greek geometrical knowledge. The first edition of the first four books (all that were then known) was published in Venice, 1537, in a Latin translation by Giovanni Battista Memo. Commmandino's much superior second edition added to the first four books the lemmas of Pappos of Alexandria (fl. A.D. 300-350), the commentaries of Eutocius of Ascalon (b. A.D. 480), and the two surviving works of the 4th-century mathematician Serenus. Apollonius described and named the ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola.

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