The Works of Archimedes

Download or read book The Works of Archimedes written by Reviel Netz and published by . This book was released on 2009 with total page 375 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Archimedes was the greatest scientist of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. This book is Volume I of the first authoritative translation of his works into English. It is also the first publication of a major ancient Greek mathematician to include a critical edition of the diagrams and the first translation into English of Eutocius' ancient commentary on Archimedes. Furthermore, it is the first work to offer recent evidence based on the Archimedes Palimpsest, the major source for Archimedes, lost between 1915 and 1998. A commentary on ...