[Footnote 56: As, for instance, the fifth, sixth, and
seventh books (the eighth is still wanting) of the Conic
Sections of Apollonius Pergaeus, which were printed from the
Florence Ms. 1661, (Fabric. Bibliot. Graec. tom. ii. p.
559.) Yet the fifth book had been previously restored by the
mathematical divination of Viviani, (see his Eloge in
Fontenelle, tom. v. p. 59, &c.)]