author: sir thomas little heath

Apollonius of Perga: Treatise on Conic Sections with Introductions Including an Essay on Earlier History on the Subject

... QKPP CM their sides are such that i.e. CP CM and if ( VN ) be the parallelogram on CV similar and similarly situated to ( PM ) , then ( VN ) ± ( VK ) = ( PM ) , the lower sign applying to the hyperbola . Suppose O to be so taken on KQ ...

Apollonius of Perga: Treatise on Conic Sections : Edited in Modern Notation : with Introductions Including an Essay on Earlier History on the Subject

... QKPP CM ) , and if ( VN ) be the parallelogram on CV similar and similarly situated to ( PM ) , then ( VN ) ± ( VK ) = ( PM ) , the lower sign applying to the hyperbola . Suppose O to be so taken on KQ produced that so that Thus or QV ...

Greek Astronomy

In the present work, first published in 1932, Sir Thomas Little Heath (1861-1940) collects some of the most notable essays and discussions of astronomical theory by Greek astronomers and mathematicians, presenting them in English ...

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