" The term was introduced by Apollonius of Perga in his work on conic sections, but in contrast to its modern meaning, he used it to mean any line that does not intersect the given curve.

* Apollonius of Perga, the classical authority

* Conics was a work on conic sections that was later extended by Apollonius of Perga into his famous work on the subject.

Apollonius of Perga ( ca.

The term hyperbola is believed to have been coined by Apollonius of Perga ( ca.

The second part can be easily deduced and follows a similar result of Apollonius of Perga for the circle.

* Apollonius of Perga, Greek geometer

* Apollonius of Perga, mathematician ( c. 262 – 190 BC )

** Conon of Samos, Greek mathematician and astronomer whose work on conic sections ( curves of the intersections of a right circular cone with a plane ) serves as the basis for the fourth book of the Conics of Apollonius of Perga ( b. c. 280 BC )

Euclid ( c. 300 BC ), Archimedes ( c. 287 – 212 BC ) and Apollonius of Perga ( c. 262 – 190 BC ).

* 190 BC – Apollonius of Perga, Greek mathematician, geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian school, known by his contemporaries as " The Great Geometer ," whose treatise " Conics " is one of the greatest scientific works from the ancient world ( b. c. 262 BC )

* Apollonius of Perga, Greek mathematician, geometer and astronomer of the Alexandrian school, known by his contemporaries as " The Great Geometer ," whose treatise " Conics " is one of the greatest scientific works from the ancient world ( b. c. 262 BC )

* Conon of Samos, Greek mathematician and astronomer whose work on conic sections ( curves of the intersections of a right circular cone with a plane ) serves as the basis for the fourth book of the Conics of Apollonius of Perga ( b. c. 280 BC )

* Apollonius of Perga ( Pergaeus ), Greek astronomer and mathematician specialising in geometry and noted for his writings on conic sections ( d. c. 190 BC )

* Apollonius of Perga astronomer, mathematician ( ca.

Apollonius of Perga reported that Conon worked on conic sections, and his work became the basis for Apollonius ' fourth book of the Conics.

* The conic sections, deeply studied by Apollonius of Perga

It was first proposed by Apollonius of Perga at the end of the 3rd century BC and formalized by Ptolemy of the Thebaid in his 2nd-century AD astronomical treatise the Almagest.

It is called Ptolemaic after the Greek astronomer Ptolemy, although it had been developed by previous Greek astronomers such as Apollonius of Perga and Hipparchus of Rhodes, who used it extensively, during the second century BC, almost three centuries before Ptolemy.

Apollonius of Perga realized that this cyclical variation could be represented visually by circles, or epicycles ( mini circular orbits ), revolving on larger circular orbits, or deferents.

Apollonius of Perga invented a more practical

Apollonius of Perga ( c. 262 – c. 190 BC ) had introduced the deferent and epicycle and the eccentric deferent to astronomy.

** Conics, a work on conic sections later extended by Apollonius of Perga into his famous work on the subject.

Most of the ancients, including the first two just mentioned, refer to his work by his name: " Pytheas says ..." Two late writers give titles: the astronomical author Geminus of Rhodes mentions ( ta peri tou Okeanou ), literally " things about the Ocean ", sometimes translated as " Description of the Ocean ", " On the Ocean " or " Ocean ;" Marcianus, the scholiast on Apollonius of Rhodes, mentions a ( periodos gēs ), a " trip around the earth " or ( periplous ), " sail around.

On Alcaeus (), and Summaries of the plots of Euripides and Sophocles (), but may have been the works of Dicaearchus, a grammarian of Lacedaemon, who, according to the Suda, was a disciple of Aristarchus, and seems to be alluded to in Apollonius.

Among these works are an excerpt ( preserved by Eusebius ) from On sacrifices, and certain alleged letters of Apollonius.

Apollonius wrote a treatise On sacrifices, of which only a short, probably authentic fragment has come down to us.

On February 21, 1972, Luna 20 soft landed on the Moon in a mountainous area known as the Apollonius highlands near Mare Fecunditatis ( Sea of Fertility ), 120 km from where Luna 16 had landed.

Das manichäische Religionssystem (" The Manichaean religious system ") appeared in 1831, Apollonius von Tyana in 1832, Die christliche Gnosis (" Christian Gnosis ") in 1835, and Über das Christliche im Platonismus oder Socrates und Christus (" On Christianity in Platonism: Socrates and Christ ") in 1837.

A number of pre-20th century books were also added, and four were dropped: Apollonius ' On Conic Sections, Laurence Sterne's Tristram Shandy, Henry Fielding's Tom Jones, and Joseph Fourier's Analytical Theory of Heat.

Additionally, some of these reproduced lines are themselves adapted from works by Virgil's earlier literary models, including Homer ’ s Iliad and Odyssey, Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica, Ennius ' Annals, and Lucretius ' On the Nature of Things.

Diodorus ( ii. 47. 1-2 ) and Apollonius of Rhodes tell of another work by Hecataeus, On the Hyperboreans.

The ancient Greeks used baskets of stones, large sacks filled with sand, and wooden logs filled with lead, which, according to Apollonius Rhodius and Stephen of Byzantium, were formed of stone ; and Athenaeus states that they were sometimes made of wood.

In the only other key reference to Euclid, Pappus briefly mentioned in the fourth century that Apollonius " spent a very long time with the pupils of Euclid at Alexandria, and it was thus that he acquired such a scientific habit of thought.

The earliest poet to link Nereus with the labours of Heracles was Pherekydes, according to a scholion on Apollonius of Rhodes.

In the most complete surviving account, the Argonautica of Apollonius, Medea fell in love with him and promised to help him, but only on the condition that if he succeeded, he would take her with him and marry her.

Apollonius says that Medea only helped Jason in the first place because Hera had convinced Aphrodite or Eros to cause Medea to fall in love with him.

Philostratus writes that he was poisoned by Domitian with a sea hare, and that his death had been foretold to him by Apollonius of Tyana.

For that purpose, so these same scholars believe, she commissioned Philostratus to write the biography, where Apollonius is exalted as a fearless sage with supernatural powers, even greater than Pythagoras.

In two Sanskrit texts quoted by Sanskritist Vidhushekhara Bhattacharya in 1943 he appears as " Apalūnya ", in one of them together with Damis ( called " Damīśa "), it is claimed that Apollonius and Damis were Western yogis, who later on were converted to the correct Advaita philosophy.

In Philostratus ’ description of Apollonius ’ life and deeds there are a number of similarities with the life and especially the claimed miracles of Jesus.

Eusebius wrote an extant reply to the pamphlet of Hierocles, where he claimed that Philostratus was a fabulist and that Apollonius was a sorcerer in league with demons.

Apollonius Rhodius relates that she gave to the infant Zeus a beautiful globe ( sphaira ) to play with, and on some Cretan coins Zeus is represented sitting upon a globe.

The love story of Rhadine made her supposed tomb on the island of Samos a pilgrimage site for star-crossed lovers in the time of Pausanias and Erato was linked again with love in Plato's Phaedrus ; nevertheless, even in the third century BCE, when Apollonius wrote, the Muses were not yet as inextricably linked to specific types of poetry as they became.

The Symplegades are sometimes identified with ( or confused with ) the Planctae () or Wandering Rocks, which are mentioned in the Odyssey and Apollonius of Rhodes ' Argonautica.

Apollonius of Rhodes states that the Egyptians of Colchis preserved as heirlooms a number of wooden tablets, which show, with considerable accuracy, seas and highways.

However, the plans to help Jason pass these obstacles were ultimately orchestrated by Hera according to Apollonius, thus agreeing with Homer.

The novel enjoyed a later influence in connection with the story tradition of Apollonius of Tyre — Eustathius ' scene of the storm at sea and the heroine offered as a sacrifice being adapted in Book 8 of the Confessio Amantis of John Gower and, by way of that, forming a portion of the plot of William Shakespeare's Pericles, Prince of Tyre ( particularly in Act III ).

Six classical Greek authors also came to identify these mythical people at the back of the North Wind with their Celtic neighbours in the north: Antimachus of Colophon, Protarchus, Heraclides Ponticus, Hecataeus of Abdera, Apollonius of Rhodes and Posidonius of Apamea.

Other works by him are editions of Anacreon ( 1778 ), several plays of the Greek tragedians, Apollonius Rhodius ( 1780 ), Aristophanes, with an excellent Latin translation ( 1781 – 1783 ), Gnomici poetae Graeci ( 1784 ), Sophocles ( 1786 ), with Latin translation, a work for which he received a pension of 2, 000 francs from the king.