Kept Alive in Arabic
Apollonius's Conics
مخروطات أبولونيوس
Apollonius wrote eight books on conic sections; only four survive in Greek. Seven survive in Arabic, in a translation made in Baghdad for the Banu Musa, the last three by Thabit ibn Qurra. From an Arabic recension, Borelli and Abraham Ecchellensis published those three in Latin at Florence in 1661.
- Author
- Apollonius of Perga (3rd century BC; Arabic version of the Banu Musa, 9th century)
- Field
- Mathematics
- What Arabic kept
- Books V, VI and VII
- Greek title
- Κωνικά
- Arabic title
- كتاب المخروطات، في ترجمة بني موسى، وتهذيب أبي الفتح الأصفهانيّ
- Latin title
- Conicorum libri V, VI, VII (Florence 1661)
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Sources
- MacTutor, «Apollonius of Perga» (University of St Andrews)
- MacTutor, «Giovanni Alfonso Borelli»: Apollonius Pergaeus Conicorum libri v. vi. vii. paraphraste Abalphato Asphahanensi (Florence, 1661)
- G. J. Toomer, Apollonius: Conics Books V to VII, The Arabic Translation of the Lost Greek Original in the Version of the Banū Mūsā (Springer, 1990)
- رشدي راشد، أبولونيوس: المخروطات، دي غرويتر، برلين ٢٠٠٨–٢٠٠٩، مقدّمة بني موسى ص٥٠١–٥٠٧
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