APOLLONIUS, Pergaeus (fl. 225 B.C.). Conicorum libri quattuor ... Sereni Antinsensis libri duo , translated and edited by Federico Commandino. Bologna: Alexander Benacius, 1566. 2° (312 x 213mm). Numerous diagrams in the text (title a little stained, first few margins with light marginal waterstaining, some light spotting throughout, occasional marginal staining). Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (lightly soiled, recased with new endpapers). Early edition of this classic work on conic sections, first Commandino edition. The culmination of classical Greek geometry "it so greatly enlarged all previous knowledge of the subject that - at least from a geometrical standpoint - there was left very little for his successors to add ... His [Apollonius'] Conics became the canonical textbook on the subject, eclipsing all of its precedessors" (Norman). Adams A1310; Norman 57.
APOLLONIUS, Pergaeus (fl. 225 B.C.). Conicorum libri quattuor ... Sereni Antinsensis libri duo , translated and edited by Federico Commandino. Bologna: Alexander Benacius, 1566. 2° (312 x 213mm). Numerous diagrams in the text (title a little stained, first few margins with light marginal waterstaining, some light spotting throughout, occasional marginal staining). Contemporary limp vellum, manuscript title on spine (lightly soiled, recased with new endpapers). Early edition of this classic work on conic sections, first Commandino edition. The culmination of classical Greek geometry "it so greatly enlarged all previous knowledge of the subject that - at least from a geometrical standpoint - there was left very little for his successors to add ... His [Apollonius'] Conics became the canonical textbook on the subject, eclipsing all of its precedessors" (Norman). Adams A1310; Norman 57.
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