The Works of Archimedes
by Thomas Heath · first published 2011
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The Works of Archimedes by Sir Thomas Heath
on “Ask HN: Older textbooks/papers you consider classics still worth studying today?” ↗…Boyer, reprinted by Dover Publications [ISBN 0486605094]. Boyer writes several pages about Archimedes' method of exhaustion, notions of the infinitesimal, and so on. The main footnote reads: For the works of Archimedes in general, see Heiberg, Archimedes opera omnia and T. L. Heath, The Works of Archimedes. For Archimedes' Method, see T. L. Heath, The Method of Archimedes, Recently Discovered by Heiberg; Heiberg and…
on “Long-lost text shows Archimedes had begun to discover the principles of calculus” ↗