Published in 1880-1, this three-volume edition of the extant works of the Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse (c.287-c.212 BCE) was edited by the Danish philologist and historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928), whose Quaestiones Archimedeae (1879) is also reissued in this series. He later discovered a medieval palimpsest containing lost works by Archimedes, which significantly expanded the canon, but the present collection was produced long before this and therefore contains the works known at the time of publication. Heiberg consulted a Florentine codex, which he painstakingly compared with other sources to produce his edition. This second volume contains On Spirals, On the Equilibrium of Planes, The Sand Reckoner, The Quadrature of the Parabola, On Floating Bodies, the Liber Assumptorum (now thought to be apocryphal), the cattle problem and fragments. The texts are given in the original Greek with parallel Latin translation, notes and introductory material.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9781108062565
eBay Product ID (ePID)
148597482
Product Key Features
Book Title
Archimedis Opera Omnia: Volume 2
Author
Archimedis
Format
Paperback
Language
Latin
Topic
Popular Philosophy
Publication Year
2013
Number of Pages
482 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
216mm
Item Width
140mm
Item Weight
610g
Additional Product Features
Title_Author
Archimedis
Series Title
Cambridge Library Collection-Classics
Editor
Johan Ludvig Heiberg
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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