Two Editions of Ibn al-Haytham's Completion of the Conics

✍ Scribed by Jan P. Hogendijk

• Book ID: 102570609
• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2002
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 179 KB
• Volume: 29
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0315-0860
• DOI: 10.1006/hmat.2002.2352

✦ Synopsis

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.