“An edition is… still wanted which shall, while in some places adhering… to the original text, at the same time be so entirely remodelled by the aid of accepted modern notation as to be thoroughly readable by any competent mathematician, and this want it is the object of the present work to supply.”

— Thomas Little Heath

Preface, p. ix
Apollonius of Perga (1896)

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British civil servant and academic 1861–1940

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