The complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola. This edition offers an informative introduction with many valuable insights into the ancient mathematician's life and thought as well as the views of his contemporaries. Modern mathematicians, physicists, science historians, and logicians will find this volume a source of timeless fascination.

The Works of Archimedes (Dover Books on Mathematics)

Archimedes

History

Dover Publications

The works translated here--the two books On the Sphere and Cylinder--were a source of great pride for Archimedes, the greatest scientist of antiquity. Accompanying this translation is the first scientific edition of the diagrams, which incorporates new information from the recently discovered Archimedes Palimpsest. The volume also includes the first English translation of Eutocius's commentary. Reviel Netz's commentary analyzes Archimedes's work from contemporary research perspectives such as scientific style and the cognitive history of mathematical texts.

The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder: Translation and Commentary

Literature & Fiction

Literary

Cambridge University Press

This is the second volume of the first fully-fledged English translation of the works of Archimedes - antiquity's greatest scientist and one of the most important scientific figures in history. It covers On Spirals and is based on a reconsideration of the Greek text and diagrams, now made possible through new discoveries from the Archimedes Palimpsest. On Spirals is one of Archimedes' most dazzling geometrical tours de force, suggesting a manner of 'squaring the circle' and, along the way, introducing the attractive geometrical object of the spiral. The form of argument, no less than the results themselves, is striking, and Reviel Netz contributes extensive and insightful comments that focus on Archimedes' scientific style, making this volume indispensable for scholars of classics and the history of science, and of great interest for the scientists and mathematicians of today.

The Works of Archimedes: Volume 2, On Spirals: Translation and Commentary

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

The Works of Archimedes

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Kessinger Publishing

Archimeds Zwey Bucher Uber Kugel Und Cylinder Ebendesselben Kreismessung (1798) (German Edition)

Hauber, Karl Friedrich

This scarce antiquarian book is a facsimile reprint of the original. Due to its age, it may contain imperfections such as marks, notations, marginalia and flawed pages. Because we believe this work is culturally important, we have made it available as part of our commitment for protecting, preserving, and promoting the world's literature in affordable, high quality, modern editions that are true to the original work.

Archimeds Zwey Bucher Uber Kugel Und Cylinder Ebendesselben Kreismessung (1798)

Kessinger Publishing, LLC

Archimedes lived in the third century BC, and died in the siege of Syracuse. Together with Euclid and Apollonius, he was one of the three great mathematicians of the ancient world, credited with astonishing breadth of thought and brilliance of insight. His practical inventions included the water-screw for irrigation, catapults and grappling devices for military defence on land and sea, compound pulley systems for moving large masses, and a model for explaining solar eclipses. According to Plutarch however, Archimedes viewed his mechanical inventions merely as 'diversions of geometry at play'. His principal focus lay in mathematics, where his achievements in geometry, arithmetic and mechanics included work on spheres, cylinders and floating objects. This classic 1897 text celebrates Archimedes' achievements. Part 1 places Archimedes in his historical context and presents his mathematical methods and discoveries, while Part 2 contains translations of his complete known writings.

The Works of Archimedes: Edited in Modern Notation with Introductory Chapters (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics)

Published in 1880-1, this three-volume edition of the extant works of the Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse (c.287-c.212 BCE) was edited by the Danish philologist and historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928), whose Quaestiones Archimedeae (1879) is also reissued in this series. He later discovered a medieval palimpsest containing lost works by Archimedes, which significantly expanded the canon, but the present collection was produced long before this and therefore contains the works known at the time of publication. Heiberg consulted a Florentine codex, which he painstakingly compared with other sources to produce his edition. This first volume contains On the Sphere and the Cylinder (in two books), On the Measurement of a Circle and On Conoids and Spheroids. The texts are given in the original Greek with parallel Latin translation, notes and introductory material.

Archimedis Opera Omnia: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics) (Latin Edition)

Published in 1880-1, this three-volume edition of the extant works of the Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse (c.287-c.212 BCE) was edited by the Danish philologist and historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928), whose Quaestiones Archimedeae (1879) is also reissued in this series. He later discovered a medieval palimpsest containing lost works by Archimedes, which significantly expanded the canon, but the present collection was produced long before this and therefore contains the works known at the time of publication. Heiberg consulted a Florentine codex, which he painstakingly compared with other sources to produce his edition. This second volume contains On Spirals, On the Equilibrium of Planes, The Sand Reckoner, The Quadrature of the Parabola, On Floating Bodies, the Liber Assumptorum (now thought to be apocryphal), the cattle problem and fragments. The texts are given in the original Greek with parallel Latin translation, notes and introductory material.

Archimedis Opera Omnia: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics) (Latin Edition)

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The Works of Archimedes (Dover Books on Mathematics)

The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder: Translation and Commentary

The Works of Archimedes: Volume 2, On Spirals: Translation and Commentary

The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder: Translation and Commentary

The Works of Archimedes

Archimeds Zwey Bucher Uber Kugel Und Cylinder Ebendesselben Kreismessung (1798) (German Edition)

Archimeds Zwey Bucher Uber Kugel Und Cylinder Ebendesselben Kreismessung (1798)

The Works of Archimedes: Edited in Modern Notation with Introductory Chapters (Cambridge Library Collection - Mathematics)

Archimedis Opera Omnia: Volume 1 (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics) (Latin Edition)

Archimedis Opera Omnia: Volume 2 (Cambridge Library Collection - Classics) (Latin Edition)