The works of Archimedes
By: edited in modern notation, with introductory chapters, edited by Thomas L. Heath
Contributors: Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940, ed
Series: Cambridge library collection; Cambridge library collection
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Cambridge
Language: eng
Number of pages: 326
ISBN-13: 9781108006156
Subjects: Geometry; Mechanics; Early works to 1800; Greek Mathematics
Notes: Digitally printed version of 1897 ed.

List of the principal works consulted: p. [xi]-xii.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: ch. I. Archimedes.; title: ch. II. Manuscripts and principal editions, order of composition, dialect, lost works.; title: ch. III. Relation of Archimedes to his predecessors.; title: ch. IV. Arithmetic in Archimedes.; title: ch. V. On the problems known as [neuseis]; title: ch. VI. Cubic equations.; title: ch. VII. Anticipations by Archimedes of the integral calculus.; title: ch. 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]