Apollonius of Perga and the Conics

Apollonius of Perga, late third and early second centuries BCE, is the name this site attaches to a Greek writer from Perga who worked at Alexandria and at Pergamum.

What this site holds is one work: Conics (Κωνικά). The eight-book count is in the tradition; this corpus files the Conics as that heading, not the lost Cutting-off of a Ratio or Tangencies, and not Arabic or Latin successors as if they were the Greek autograph. The Greek names ἔλλειψις, παραβολή, ὑπερβολή. It is γεωμετρία in this corpus, not a later astronomy handbook.