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326

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Table of 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 fu r math. u. phys. [Hist. litt. abth.] v. 25, 1880]

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List of the principal works consulted: p. [xi]-xii.

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QA31 .A69, D21 .T89

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clxxxvi p., 1 ℗ ., 326 p.
Number of pages
326

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OL14118937M
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03002208
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1303586, 2859210

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OL5681640W

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