The work of Apollonius of Perga extended the field of geometric constructions far beyond the range in the Elements. For example, Euclid in Book III shows how to draw a circle so as to pass through three given points or to be tangent to three given lines; Apollonius (in a work called Tangencies, which no longer survives) found the circle tangent to three given circles, or tangent to any combination of three points, lines, and circles. (The three-circle tangency construction, one of the most extensively studied geometric problems, has attracted more than 100 different solutions in the modern period.) Apollonius ...(100 of 41449 words)