Oxford. Christ Church, Library, MS 85
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- Christ Church MS 85
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- Date
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- 1704
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- Greek
- Title
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- On the Section of a Cylinder
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- Serenus antinoensis (0300?-0350?)
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- Serenus, Antissensis, 4th century AD
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- SERENUS Antissæus
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- Description
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- Greek manuscript on De sectione cylindri ascribed to Serenus, which
was copied from three codices then held at the Royal Library in
Paris for Henry Aldrich and placed by him at the disposal of Edmund
Halley for his 1710 edition Apollonii Pergaei conicorum libri octo
et Sereni Antissensis De sectioni cylindri & coni libri duo. It
seems likely that from the seventh century the two surviving works
of Serenus and the commentary of Eutocius were bound with the
Conics of Apollonious. Theodorus Metochita read them together early
in the fourteenth century. A Latin translation of Serenus’ De
sectione cylindri and De sectione coni was published by F.
Commandinus at the end of his Apollonü conicorum libri quatri
(Bologna, 1566). The Greek text was first published by E. Halley in
Apollonii Pergaei Conicorum libri octo et Sereni Antissensis De
sectione cylindri et coni libri duo (Oxford, 1710). A definitive
critical edition with Latin translation was published by E. Nizze,
Serenus von Antissa: Ueber den Schnitt des Cylinders (Stralsund,
1860) and Ueber den Schnitt des Kegels (Stralsund, 1861); and there
is an excellent French translation with introduction and notes by
Paul Ver Eecke, Serenus d’Antinoë Le livre De la section du
cylinder e le livre De la section du cône (Paris-Bruges,
1929).
Contents: On the Section of a Cylinder consists of an introduction, eight definitions, and thirty-three propositions. It counters what is said to have been a prevalent belief–that the curve formed by the oblique section of a cylinder differs from the curve formed by the oblique section of a cone known as the ellipse. In the final five propositions Serenus defended a friend Peithon, who, not satisfied with Euclid’s treatment, had defined parallels to be such lines as are cast on a wall or a roof by a pillar with a light behind it. Even in the decline of Greek mathematics this description had been a source of amusement to Peithon’s contemporaries.
Extent: ff. iii + 136. 420 x 260 mm.
Layout: In three columns, mostly of 29-31 lines to the column dedicated to the main text. The verso of the page is usually blank, except, occasionally, for geometrical drawings.
Binding: Eighteenth-century gold-tooled red morocco binding.
Provenance: Henry Aldrich (1648-1710) bequest.
- Greek manuscript on De sectione cylindri ascribed to Serenus, which
was copied from three codices then held at the Royal Library in
Paris for Henry Aldrich and placed by him at the disposal of Edmund
Halley for his 1710 edition Apollonii Pergaei conicorum libri octo
et Sereni Antissensis De sectioni cylindri & coni libri duo. It
seems likely that from the seventh century the two surviving works
of Serenus and the commentary of Eutocius were bound with the
Conics of Apollonious. Theodorus Metochita read them together early
in the fourteenth century. A Latin translation of Serenus’ De
sectione cylindri and De sectione coni was published by F.
Commandinus at the end of his Apollonü conicorum libri quatri
(Bologna, 1566). The Greek text was first published by E. Halley in
Apollonii Pergaei Conicorum libri octo et Sereni Antissensis De
sectione cylindri et coni libri duo (Oxford, 1710). A definitive
critical edition with Latin translation was published by E. Nizze,
Serenus von Antissa: Ueber den Schnitt des Cylinders (Stralsund,
1860) and Ueber den Schnitt des Kegels (Stralsund, 1861); and there
is an excellent French translation with introduction and notes by
Paul Ver Eecke, Serenus d’Antinoë Le livre De la section du
cylinder e le livre De la section du cône (Paris-Bruges,
1929).
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