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Historical, textual, and mathematical essays accompanying the Treatise on Conic Sections Book Codex:

• Apollonius of Perga: The Great Geometer — Life at Perga, Alexandria, Ephesus, and Pergamum; astronomical epicycles and lost works.

• The Heath Cambridge Greek Trilogy (1896–1912) — How Heath’s 1896 Apollonius inaugurated the unified edition of Apollonius, Archimedes, and Euclid.

• Greek & Arabic Textual Transmission — From Eutocius’s Byzantine Greek recension (Books I–IV) and the Banū Mūsā / Thābit ibn Qurra Baghdad translation (Books V–VII) to Halley (1710) and Heiberg (1891–1893).