The works of Archimedes /
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| Lingua: | English Ancient Greek |
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New York :
Dover Publications,
[1953].
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| Serie: | Dover histories and classics of science
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Sommario:
- 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
- On the sphere and cylinder
- Measurement of a circle
- On conoids and spheroids
- On spirals
- On the equilibrium of planes
- The sand-reckoner
- Quadrature of the parabola
- On floating bodies
- Book of lemmas
- The cattle-problem
- Supplement: The method of Archimedes.