The works of Archimedes : translated into English, together with Eutocius' commentaries, with commentary and critical edition of the diagrams. Volume 1, The two books On the sphere and the cylinder / [edited and translated by] Reviel Netz.

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Archimedes [author.]

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Material type: Text

TextLanguage: English Original language: Greek, Ancient (to 1453) Publisher: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press, 2004Description: 1 online resource (x, 375 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)Content type:

text

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computer

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online resource

ISBN:

9780511482557 (ebook)

Uniform titles:

Works. English. 2004

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Additional physical formats: Print version: : No titleDDC classification:

510 22

LOC classification:

QA31 .A692 2004

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Summary: Archimedes was the greatest scientist of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. This book is Volume I of the first authoritative translation of his works into English. It is also the first publication of a major ancient Greek mathematician to include a critical edition of the diagrams and the first translation into English of Eutocius' ancient commentary on Archimedes. Furthermore, it is the first work to offer recent evidence based on the Archimedes Palimpsest, the major source for Archimedes, lost between 1915 and 1998. A commentary on the translated text studies the cognitive practice assumed in writing and reading the work, and it is Reviel Netz's aim to recover the original function of the text as an act of communication. Particular attention is paid to the aesthetic dimension of Archimedes' writings. Taken as a whole, the commentary offers a groundbreaking approach to the study of mathematical texts.

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Archimedes was the greatest scientist of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. This book is Volume I of the first authoritative translation of his works into English. It is also the first publication of a major ancient Greek mathematician to include a critical edition of the diagrams and the first translation into English of Eutocius' ancient commentary on Archimedes. Furthermore, it is the first work to offer recent evidence based on the Archimedes Palimpsest, the major source for Archimedes, lost between 1915 and 1998. A commentary on the translated text studies the cognitive practice assumed in writing and reading the work, and it is Reviel Netz's aim to recover the original function of the text as an act of communication. Particular attention is paid to the aesthetic dimension of Archimedes' writings. Taken as a whole, the commentary offers a groundbreaking approach to the study of mathematical texts.

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The works of Archimedes : translated into English, together with Eutocius' commentaries, with commentary and critical edition of the diagrams. Volume 1, The two books On the sphere and the cylinder / [edited and translated by] Reviel Netz.