The works of Archimedes
By: edited in modern notation with introductory chapters by T.L. Heath
Contributors: Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940
Series: Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I; Nineteenth Century Collections Online: Science, Technology, and Medicine, Part I
Publisher: University Press
Published: 1897
Place of publication: Cambridge [Mass.]
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] /
Number of pages: 326
Subjects: Greek Mathematics; Geometry; Early works to 1800; Mechanics
Notes: Reproduction of the original from the Huntington Library.

List of the principal works consulted: p. [xi]-xii.
Table of contents: title: 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; title: 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.] v. 25, 1880].