• 02/11/2025

No exaggeration: Scientists rediscover lost works of Apollonius in a 17th-century manuscript

Jerusalem Post

 Conica of Apollonius of Perga fol. 162b and 164a. (photo credit: CC BY 4.0)
The manuscript had been forgotten in the library, part of a collection acquired by Dutch Orientalist and mathematician Jacob Golius during his travels in the Middle East in the 17th century.

https://www.jpost.com/archaeology/archaeology-around-the-world/article-841280