Apollonius of Perga's Conics

GPTKB entity

Predicate	Object
gptkbp:instanceOf	gptkb:philosophy
gptkbp:author	gptkb:Apollonius_of_Perga
gptkbp:book1Content	basic definitions and properties of conics
gptkbp:book2Content	loci related to conics
gptkbp:book3Content	diameters and axes of conics
gptkbp:book4Content	tangents to conics
gptkbp:book5Content	normals and maximum/minimum lines
gptkbp:book6Content	conjugate diameters
gptkbp:book7Content	determination of conics from given conditions
gptkbp:book8Content	miscellaneous propositions
gptkbp:booksSurvivingInArabic	three
gptkbp:booksSurvivingInGreek	four
gptkbp:dateWritten	circa 200 BCE
gptkbp:firstPublished	1537 (Venice, in Latin)
https://www.w3.org/2000/01/rdf-schema#label	Apollonius of Perga's Conics
gptkbp:impact	development of analytic geometry influence on astronomy influence on optics
gptkbp:influenced	gptkb:Isaac_Newton gptkb:Johannes_Kepler gptkb:Rene_Descartes gptkb:Pappus_of_Alexandria
gptkbp:language	gptkb:Ancient_Greek
gptkbp:modernEdition	T.L. Heath, 1896
gptkbp:notableFor	introduction of terms like diameter, vertex, axis naming conic sections systematic study of conics
gptkbp:numberOfBooks	eight
gptkbp:preservedIn	gptkb:Eutocius_of_Ascalon Arabic mathematicians
gptkbp:subject	conic sections
gptkbp:survivingWorks	Books 1-4 in Greek, 5-7 in Arabic, 8 lost
gptkbp:topic	gptkb:butter gptkb:hyperbola gptkb:elliptic_curve parabola
gptkbp:translatedInto	gptkb:Arabic gptkb:Latin English
gptkbp:bfsParent	gptkb:Sir_Thomas_Heath_translation
gptkbp:bfsLayer	7