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"This volume, and the overall project it launches, is a most welcome addition to the scholarship on Hellenistic mathematics and the mathematical sciences." Nathan Sidoli, University of Toronto
"...this work is an important, interesting, and very welcome contribution to the field of ancient mathematics." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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The works translated here--The Two Books On the Sphere and Cylinder--were a source of great pride for Archimedes, the greatest scientist of antiquity. Accompanying this translation is the first scientific edition of the diagrams, which incorporates new information from the recently discovered Archimedes Palimpsest. The volume also includes the first English translation of Eutocius' commentary. Reviel Netz's commentary analyzes Archimedes' work from contemporary research perspectives such as scientific style and the cognitive history of mathematical texts.
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"This volume, and the overall project it launches, is a most welcome addition to the scholarship on Hellenistic mathematics and the mathematical sciences." Nathan Sidoli, University of Toronto
"...this work is an important, interesting, and very welcome contribution to the field of ancient mathematics." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
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The works translated here--The Two Books On the Sphere and Cylinder--were a source of great pride for Archimedes, the greatest scientist of antiquity. Accompanying this translation is the first scientific edition of the diagrams, which incorporates new information from the recently discovered Archimedes Palimpsest. The volume also includes the first English translation of Eutocius' commentary. Reviel Netz's commentary analyzes Archimedes' work from contemporary research perspectives such as scientific style and the cognitive history of mathematical texts.
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The extraordinary influence of Archimedes over the scientific revolution was due in the main to Latin and Greek-Latin versions handwritten and then printed from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
four times the great circle, cylindrical surface cut, isosceles cone, four times the greatest circle, smaller side greater, circle around the diameter, figure circumscribed, ratio triplicate, four times the cone, two unequal lines, perturbed proportion, solid sector, two unequal magnitudes, circumscribed figure, ratio duplicate, general enunciation, two mean proportionals, textual comments, axiomatic introduction, ratio composed, see general comments, sealed figure, proportion inequalities, triplicate ratio, proportion inequality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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The extraordinary influence of Archimedes over the scientific revolution was due in the main to Latin and Greek-Latin versions handwritten and then printed from the thirteenth to the seventeenth centuries. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
four times the great circle, cylindrical surface cut, isosceles cone, four times the greatest circle, smaller side greater, circle around the diameter, figure circumscribed, ratio triplicate, four times the cone, two unequal lines, perturbed proportion, solid sector, two unequal magnitudes, circumscribed figure, ratio duplicate, general enunciation, two mean proportionals, textual comments, axiomatic introduction, ratio composed, see general comments, sealed figure, proportion inequalities, triplicate ratio, proportion inequality Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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- The Works of Archimedes by Archimedes on page 1
- Polarity and Analogy by G. E. R. Lloyd in Back Matter
- The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics: A Study in Cognitive History (Ideas in Context) by Reviel Netz in Front Matter
- Midwest Studies in Philosophy: Philosophy of Science by Peter A. French in Front Matter
- The Ancient Tradition of Geometric Problems by Wilbur Richard Knorr in Back Matter
- The Divine Comedy, III. Paradiso. Part 2 by Dante in Back Matter
- Theology and the Scientific Imagination from the Middle Ages to the Seventeenth Century by Amos Funkenstein in Back Matter
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