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The Works of Archimedes Edited by Thomas Little Heath (1861-1940) Cambridge University Press, 1897 This book contains an introduction and English translations/paraphrases of all of the works of Archimedes with the exception of “The Method”. (See the next listing for this work.) Heath’s main source for the original text of Archimedes was Heiberg’s Archimedis Opera Omnia listed below.
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The Method of Archimedes RECENTLY DISCOVERED BY HEIBERG A Supplement to The Works of Archimedes 1897 Edited by Thomas Little Heath (1861-1940) Cambridge University Press, 1912 This 51-page supplement contains an introduction and English translation of the treatise of Archimedes usually called “The Method.” The treatise was discovered by J. L. Heiberg in Constantinople in 1906 [1], who then published its Greek text [2]. Access from Internet Archive (scanned at the Cornell University Library) References:
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Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics: A Treatise of Archimedes Discovered and Edited by Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928) Introduction by David Eugene Smith (1860-1944) Translation into English by Lydia Gillingham Robinson The Open Court Publishing Company, Chicago, 1909 This 28-page pamphlet is a reprint of a journal article [1] containing an English translation of the treatise of Archimedes usually called “The Method.” The treatise was discovered by Heiberg in Constantinople in 1906 [2], who then published its Greek text [3] and translated it into German [4]. Robinson’s English translation is from Heiberg’s German translation. (Note that the translation immediately above by Heath is from the original Greek text edited by Heiberg.)
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Archimedis Opera Omnia cum Commentariis Eutocii edited by Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928) B. G. Teubner, Leipzig, 1880-81 This classic work in three volumes contains the Greek and Latin texts of Archimedes’ works on facing pages as edited by Heiberg. It also contains the commentaries of Eutocius (Greek, c. 480-540) on three of these works. You can access PDFs of these volumes from a site dedicated to the memory of the History of Mathematics Department at Brown University (Providence, RI, USA ) or you can download them directly from this site by clicking on the links below.
Volume 1 (1880)
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Volume 2 (1881)
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Archimedes by Thomas Little Heath (1861-1940) Pioneers of Progress: Men of Science London: Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, 1920 This 58-page book contains a description and discussion of Archimedes’ life and works. It does not contain any diagrams or illustrations.
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