The works of Archimedes / edited in modern notation, with introductory chapters, by T.L. Heath.
- Archimedes.
- Date:
- 1897
- Books
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Cambridge : University Press, 1897.
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clxxxvi pages, 1 leaf, 326 pages : diagram ; 23 cm
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List of the principal works consulted: p. [xi]-xii
Contents
Introduction: I. Archimedes. II. Manuscripts and principal editions, order of composition, dialect, lost works. III. Relation of Archimedes to his predecessors. IV. Arithmetic in Archimedes. V. On the problems known as [neuseis] VI. Cubic equations. VII. Anticipations by Archimedes of the integral calculus. VIII. The terminology of Archimedes.--Works: On the sphere and cylinder, books I-II. Measurement of a circle. On conoids and spheroids. On spirals. On the equilibrium of planes, books I-II. The sand-reckoner. Quadrature of the parabola. On floating bodies, books I-II. Book of lemmas. The cattle-problem [including the solution of Wurm's problem by Amthor in Zeitschrift für math. u. phys. [Hist. litt. abth.] v. 25, 1880]
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