TY  - BOOK
AU  - Archimedes.
AU  - Heath,Thomas Little
TI  - ˜The œworks of Archimedes
T2  - Cambridge library collection
SN  - 9781108006156 (pbk.)
U1  - 510 22.
PY  - 2010///
CY  - Cambridge
PB  - Cambridge University Press
KW  - Mathematics, Greek
KW  - Geometry
KW  - Mechanics
N1  - Digitally printed version of 1897 edition; List of the principal works consulted: pages [xi]-xii; Introduction --ch. I. Archimedes. -- chapter II. Manuscripts and principal editions, order of composition, dialect, lost works. -- chapter III. Relation of Archimedes to his predecessors. -- chapter IV. Arithmetic in Archimedes. --ch. V. On the problems known as [neuseis] -- chapter VI. Cubic equations. -- chapter VII. Anticipations by Archimedes of the integral calculus. -- chapter 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.] volume 25, 1880]
ER  -