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Ibn al-Haytham's Completion of the Conicsby J. P. Hogendijk

✍ Scribed by Review by: J. L. Berggren

Book ID
123715066
Publisher
University of Chicago Press
Year
1986
Tongue
English
Weight
547 KB
Volume
77
Category
Article
ISSN
0021-1753

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The lost Book VIII of the Conics of Apollonius of Perga (ca. 200 B.C.) was reconstructed by the Islamic mathematician Ibn al-Haytham (ca. A.D. 965-1041) in his Completion of the Conics. The Arabic text of this reconstruction with English translation and commentary was published as J. P.