Two Editions of Ibn al-Haytham's Complet
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Jan P. Hogendijk
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Article
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2002
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Elsevier Science
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English
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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.