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Archimedis Opera Omnia: Volume 1

Archimedes author Johan Ludvig Heiberg editor

Format:Paperback

Publisher:Cambridge University Press

Published:18th Apr '13

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Published 1880–1, this three-volume edition of Archimedes' extant works in Greek includes commentaries and parallel Latin translation.

Published 1880–1, this three-volume edition of Archimedes' extant works was edited by the Danish philologist Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854–1928). The texts are given in Greek, with parallel Latin translation, notes and introductory material. The collection also includes Eutocius of Ascalon's complete commentaries on Archimedes.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 first volume contains On the Sphere and the Cylinder (in two books), On the Measurement of a Circle and On Conoids and Spheroids. The texts are given in the original Greek with parallel Latin translation, notes and introductory material.

ISBN: 9781108062558

Dimensions: 216mm x 140mm x 29mm

Weight: 650g

516 pages