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Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- LIST OF PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES
- Contents
- PART I THE EARLIER HISTORY OF CONIC SECTIONS AMONG THE GREEKS
- PART II INTRODUCTION TO THE CONICS OF APOLLONIUS
- THE CONICS OF APOLLONIUS
- THE CONE
- THE DIAMETER AND ITS CONJUGATE
- TANGENTS
- PROPOSITIONS LEADING TO THE REFERENCE OF A CONIC TO ANY NEW DIAMETER AND THE TANGENT AT ITS EXTREMITY
- CONSTRUCTION OF CONICS FROM CERTAIN DATA
- ASYMPTOTES
- TANGENTS, CONJUGATE DIAMETERS AND AXES
- EXTENSIONS OF PROPOSITIONS 17–19
- RECTANGLES UNDER SEGMENTS OF INTERSECTING CHORDS
- HARMONIC PROPERTIES OF POLES AND POLARS
- INTERCEPTS MADE ON TWO TANGENTS BY A THIRD
- FOCAL PROPERTIES OF CENTRAL CONICS
- THE LOCUS WITH RESPECT TO THREE LINES ETC
- INTERSECTING CONICS
- NORMALS AS MAXIMA AND MINIMA
- PROPOSITIONS LEADING IMMEDIATELY TO THE DETERMINATION OF THE EVOLUTE
- CONSTRUCTION OF NORMALS
- OTHER PROPOSITIONS RESPECTING MAXIMA AND MINIMA
- EQUAL AND SIMILAR CONICS
- PROBLEMS
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 October 2014
- Frontmatter
- Preface
- LIST OF PRINCIPAL AUTHORITIES
- Contents
- PART I THE EARLIER HISTORY OF CONIC SECTIONS AMONG THE GREEKS
- PART II INTRODUCTION TO THE CONICS OF APOLLONIUS
- THE CONICS OF APOLLONIUS
- THE CONE
- THE DIAMETER AND ITS CONJUGATE
- TANGENTS
- PROPOSITIONS LEADING TO THE REFERENCE OF A CONIC TO ANY NEW DIAMETER AND THE TANGENT AT ITS EXTREMITY
- CONSTRUCTION OF CONICS FROM CERTAIN DATA
- ASYMPTOTES
- TANGENTS, CONJUGATE DIAMETERS AND AXES
- EXTENSIONS OF PROPOSITIONS 17–19
- RECTANGLES UNDER SEGMENTS OF INTERSECTING CHORDS
- HARMONIC PROPERTIES OF POLES AND POLARS
- INTERCEPTS MADE ON TWO TANGENTS BY A THIRD
- FOCAL PROPERTIES OF CENTRAL CONICS
- THE LOCUS WITH RESPECT TO THREE LINES ETC
- INTERSECTING CONICS
- NORMALS AS MAXIMA AND MINIMA
- PROPOSITIONS LEADING IMMEDIATELY TO THE DETERMINATION OF THE EVOLUTE
- CONSTRUCTION OF NORMALS
- OTHER PROPOSITIONS RESPECTING MAXIMA AND MINIMA
- EQUAL AND SIMILAR CONICS
- PROBLEMS
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- Treatise on Conic SectionsEdited in Modern Notation with Introductions, Including an Essay on the Earlier History of the Subject, pp. 22 - 30Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2013