The Works of Archimedes

Voorkant
Cosimo, Inc., 1 jun 2007 - 516 pagina's
The complete works of Archimedes from the classic translation by T. L. Heath.
 

Geselecteerde pagina's

Inhoudsopgave

INTRODUCTION
xv
Manuscripts and principal editionsorder
xxiii
Relation of Archimedes to his predecessors
xxxix
Arithmetic in Archimedes
lxviii
On the problems known as NEY2EI2
c
Cubic equations exxiii
cxlii
ON THE SPHERE AND CYLINDER BOOK 1
1
BOOK II
56
ON THE EQUILIBRIUM OF PLANES BOOK I
189
BOOK II
203
THE SANDRECKONER
221
QUADRATURE OP THE PARABOLA
233
ON FLOATING BODIES BOOK 1
253
BOOK H
263
BOOK OF LEMMAS
301
THE CATTLEPROBLEM
319

MEASUREMENT OP A CIRCLE
91
ON CONOIDS AND SPHEROIDS
99
ON SPHtALS
161
SUPPLEMENT
326
Copyright

Overige edities - Alles bekijken

Veelvoorkomende woorden en zinsdelen

Over de auteur (2007)

Archimedes was a mathematician and inventor, born in Syracuse, Sicily, about 287 B.C. He became famous for his law of the lever and for inventing the catapult, parabolic mirror, and the mechanical crane that was capable of capsizing a ship by overturning it. These inventions were designed to defend Syracuse during the Second Punic War, which were waged between Rome and Carthage. While Archimedes made fundamental contributions to physics, his greatest contributions were to theoretical mathematics. Some of his works have come down to us. When Syracuse was taken in 212 B.C., Archimedes was killed by the Roman soldiers, being at the time intent upon a mathematical problem.

Bibliografische gegevens