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

Archimedes

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0521661609 ISBN 13: 9780521661607

Publisher: Cambridge University Press, 2004

Synopsis

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.

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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.

Edition details

• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Publication date: 2004
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521661609
• ISBN 13: 9780521661607
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 386