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Apollonius of Perga Born: about 262 BC in Perga, Pamphylia, Greek Ionia (now Murtina, Antalya, Turkey) Died: about 190 BC in Alexandria, Egypt Click the picture above to see a larger version Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Apollonius of Perga was known as 'The Great Geometer'. Little is known of his life but his works have had a very great influence on the development of mathematics, in particular his famous book Conics introduced terms which are familiar to us today such as parabola ellipse and hyperbola Apollonius of Perga should not be confused with other Greek scholars called Apollonius, for it was a common name. In [1] details of others with the name of Apollonius are given: Apollonius of Rhodes, born about 295 BC, a Greek poet and grammarian, a pupil of Callimachus who was a teacher of Eratosthenes ; Apollonius of Tralles, 2nd century BC, a Greek sculptor; Apollonius the Athenian, 1st century BC, a sculptor; Apollonius of Tyana, 1st century AD, a member of the society founded by Pythagoras; Apollonius Dyscolus, 2nd century AD, a Greek grammarian who was reputedly the founder of the systematic study of grammar; and Apollonius of Tyre who is a literary character. The mathematician Apollonius was born in Perga, Pamphylia which today is known as Murtina, or Murtana and is now in Antalya, Turkey. Perga was a centre of culture at this time and it was the place of worship of Queen Artemis, a nature goddess. When he was a young man Apollonius went to Alexandria where he studied under the followers of

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Apollonius of Perga Born: about 262 BC in Perga, Pamphylia, Greek Ionia (now Murtina, Antalya, Turkey) Died: about 190 BC in Alexandria, Egypt Click the picture above to see a larger version Previous (Chronologically) Next Biographies Index Previous (Alphabetically) Next Main index Apollonius of Perga was known as 'The Great Geometer'. Little is known of his life but his works have had a very great influence on the development of mathematics, in particular his famous book Conics introduced terms which are familiar to us today such as parabola ellipse and hyperbola Apollonius of Perga should not be confused with other Greek scholars called Apollonius, for it was a common name. In [1] details of others with the name of Apollonius are given: Apollonius of Rhodes, born about 295 BC, a Greek poet and grammarian, a pupil of Callimachus who was a teacher of Eratosthenes ; Apollonius of Tralles, 2nd century BC, a Greek sculptor; Apollonius the Athenian, 1st century BC, a sculptor; Apollonius of Tyana, 1st century AD, a member of the society founded by Pythagoras; Apollonius Dyscolus, 2nd century AD, a Greek grammarian who was reputedly the founder of the systematic study of grammar; and Apollonius of Tyre who is a literary character. The mathematician Apollonius was born in Perga, Pamphylia which today is known as Murtina, or Murtana and is now in Antalya, Turkey. Perga was a centre of culture at this time and it was the place of worship of Queen Artemis, a nature goddess. When he was a young man Apollonius went to Alexandria where he studied under the followers of

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Home Ancient Greek Scientists AGRICULTURALISTS ARCHITECTS ... PHYSICISTS MATHEMATICIAN APOLLONIUS OF PERGA (fl. 260-190 or 170 BC) Life Ranked with the great mathematicians Archimedes and Euclid for his contribution to mathematics, Apollonius of Perga (in the Ionian kingdom of Pamphylia) studied at Alexandria with Euclid's successors, and later taught in Ephesus and Pergamum. Pappus (3rd century AD) described him as arrogant and conceited, the title of "Great Geometer" attributed to him during the lifetime of Archimedes having apparently gone to his head. Ptolemy records that "Hipparchus based his theory relating to the orbit of the planets on the work of Apollonius". In Pergamum he met and worked with Eudemus. Many later mathematicians, including Viete, Descartes, Fermat and Desargues, were influenced by his work; and one of the craters on the moon has been named "Apollonius" in his honour. Work His principal works are: "On Proportional Section": 2 books. Cited by Pappus in his "Collection". Survives in Arabic translation, from which Halley translated it into Latin in 1706. "On Spatial Section": 2 books. Cited by Pappus in his "Collection". Lost. Halley tried to reconstruct it on the basis of references in other writers.

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Apollonius of Perga : Library of Congress Citations The Little Search Engine that Could Down to Name Citations LC Online Catalog Amazon Search Book Citations (12 Records) Author: Apollonius, of Perga. Uniform Title: Keonika. French. Title: Les coniques d'Apollonius de Perge; 6uvres traduites pour la premiaere fois du grec en franpcais avec une introduction et des notes par Paul ver Eecke. Published: Bruges, Desclbee, de Brouwer et cie, 1923. Description: L p., 1 l., 656 p. front., diagrs. 28 cm. LC Call No.: QA31 .A6 1923 Notes: "Ouvrage publibe sous les auspices de la Fondation universitaire de Belgique." Subjects: Mathematics, Greek. Conic sections. Other authors: Ver Eecke, Paul, 1867- tr. Control No.: 24025507 //r842 Author: Apollonius, of Perga. Uniform Title: Keonika. English Title: Conics. Book I- Translated into English from the Greek by R. Catesby Taliaferro ... Published: [Annapolis, Md.] c1939- Description: v. diagrs. 28 cm. Series: The classics of the St. John's program LC Call No.: QA31 .A5 1939 Dewey No.: 513.22 Notes: At head of title: Apollonius of Perga. Mimeographed. Subjects: Mathematics, Greek. Conic sections. Other authors: Taliaferro, R. Catesby (Robert Catesby), 1907- tr. Control No.: 40008976 //r90 Author: Apollonius, of Perga. Title: Treatise on conic sections [microform] / edited in modern notation, with introductions including an essay on the earlier history of the subject by T.L. Heath. Published: Cambridge : University Press, 1896. Description: clxx, 254 p. : ill. ; 23 cm. LC Call No.: Microfilm 84/6746 (Q) Notes: Contents: Introduction: pt. I. The earlier history of conic sections among the Greeks. pt. II. Introduction to the "Conics" of Apollonius The "Conics" of Apollonius. Call number of original: QA31.A5 1896. Master microform held by: DLC. Microfilm. Washington, D.C. : Library of Congress Photoduplication Service, 1984. 1 microfilm reel ; 35 mm. Control No.: 84196497 //r85

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Bernard Quaritch Ltd. APOLLONIUS of Perga. Conicorum Lib. V. VI. VII. paraphraste Abalphato Asphahanensi nunc primum editi. Additus in calce Archimedis assumptorum liber ex codicibus Arabicis Mss ... Abrahamus Ecchellensis Latinos ... reddidit ... Io. Alfonsus Borellus ... notas uberiores in universum opus adiecit. Florence, Joseph Cocchini, 1661. Tall 4to, pp. [xxxvi], 415, title printed in red and black, numerous diagrams throughout; old stamp on title and half-title; attractive Italian 18th century vellum-backed paste-paper boards. A FINE COPY OF THE FIRST EDITION of the Ecchelensis translation, the first published version of Books V - VII of Apollonius' Conics, which only survive in the Arabic version of Abu'l Fath al Isfahani, based on the translation of Thabit ibn Qurra. Apollonius introduced the terms ellipse, parabola and hyperbola. The first four books of the Conics 'probably contain little that was not already known ... Books V - VII seem to contain the discoveries which he himself had made' (Smith, History of mathematics, I, p. 117). These books were presumed lost (the eighth is still lost) until Borelli discovered an Arabic manuscript in the Medici library in Florence. Abraham Ecchelensis was a Maronite, born in Syria, who died in Rome 1664. He was professor of Arabic and Syriac in Rome and Paris. All of Apollonius's other works have been lost with one exception, De sectione rationis, which survives only in an Arabic translation. The text by Archimedes appended here was translated from another Arabic manuscript in the Medici library. As with the Apollonius, the Greek original of this text does not survive.

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