The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder : Translation and Commentary

The Works of Archimedes: Volume 1, The Two Books On the Sphere and the Cylinder : Translation and Commentary

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Book Description
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's commentary. Reviel Netz's commentary analyzes Archimedes's work from contemporary research perspectives such as scientific style and the cognitive history of mathematical texts.

About the Author
Reviel Netz is Assistant Professor of Classics at Stanford University. He is the author of The Shaping of Deduction in Greek Mathematics (1999; 0521 62279 4), which was a joint winner of the Runciman Award for 2000.

The Works of Archimedes: Translation and Commentary,Archimedes,Reviel Netz,Cambridge University Press,0521661609,History & Surveys - Ancient & Classical,Philosophy,Ancient Western philosophy to c 500,Geometry,Philosophy / Ancient,Philosophy of mathematics

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