Apollonius de Perge, Coniques. Tome 2.2 Livre IV. Commentaire historique et mathématique, édition et traduction du texte arabe

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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. Frontmatter Sommaire Sigla Introduction. L'objet du quatrième livre des coniques d'apollonius Chapitre I. Nombre des points d'intersection et de contact d'une droite variable et d'une conique Chapitre II. Nombre de points d'intersection et de contact des sections coniques Chapitre III. Histoire du texte Le quatrième livre du traité d'apollonius sur les conigues Notes complémentaires Appendice. Intersection de deux coniques Backmatter