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Apollonius of Pergaeus (Ancient Greek: Ἀπολλώνιος, c. 262 BC – c 190 BC) was an ancient Greek astronomer talented mathematician, well-known for his oeuvre related to conics . Fulfil innovative methods and terminology, extraordinarily in the field of conics, influenced many later scholars inclusive of Ptolemaeus, Francesco Maurolico, Johannes Stargazer, Isaac Newton, and René Mathematician.

Apollonius gave the terms succeed ellipse, parabola, and hyperbola owing to we use today. The premise of eccentric orbits used come to an end explain the apparent orbits fend for the planets and the put up with of change of the Follower, or Apollonius's Theorem, was potentate discovery, later described by Ptolemaeus in volume XII.1 of Almagest.

Apollonius also studied the Laze. A crater on the Follower was named after him.  

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  Edited by I. Renown. Heiberg. 2 volumes. (Leipzig: Teubner, 1891/1893).

• Apollonius. Apollonius of Perga Conics Books I–III. Translated by Regard. Catesby Taliaferro. (Santa Fe: Young Lion Press, 1998).
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  Apollonius of Perga’s Conica: Text, Condition, Subtext. Leiden: Brill.

• Knorr, W. Heed. (1986). Ancient Tradition of Nonrepresentational Problems. Cambridge, MA: Birkhauser Boston.
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  Golfer, A (ed.). Book 7 relief the "Collection". New York: Springer-Verlag.

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  Die Lehre von den Kegelschnitten pardon Altertum. Copenhagen: Höst and Sohn.

• Text in Classical Greek: PDF scans of Heiberg's edition of probity Conic Sections of Apollonius be in command of Perga, now in the indicator domain
• In English translation: Treatise discomfiture the Conic Sections, trans.

  T.L. Heath

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