Book IV of the Konika consists of two parts; the first presents a theory of poles and polars, the second deals with the number of intersections and points of contact in a conic section. Previously the book was only extant as the very unreliable text of a Greek commentary by Eutocius. Roshdi Rashed here presents for the first time an edition of an Arabic translation based on a text independent of this Greek version. This is a valuable re-discovery, for which reason it is published here as a separate volume. It contains an edition princeps of the Arabic text, together with a faithful translation and a historical-mathematical commentary.
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Roshdi Rashed, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique und Université de Paris VII, Paris, Frankreich.
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Language French ● Format PDF ● Pages 329 ● ISBN 9783110217179 ● File size 10.9 MB ● Editor Roshdi Rashed ● Publisher De Gruyter ● City Berlin/Boston ● Published 2009 ● Edition 1 ● Downloadable 24 months ● Currency EUR ● ID 6359717 ● Copy protection Adobe DRM
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