Archimedis Opera Omnia: Volume 1 by Archimedes, Johan Ludvig... - 9781108062558

Archimedis Opera Omnia: Volume 1Author(s): Archimedes, Johan Ludvig Heiberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press, United Kingdom\nImprint: Cambridge University Press\nISBN-13: 9781108062558, 978-1108062558\nSynopsis\nPublished in 18801, this three-volume edition of the extant works of the Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse ([url] BCE) was edited by the Danish philologist and historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg [tel], whose Quaestiones Archimedeae [tel] 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 Sph.