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9780486420844
Complete works of ancient geometer in highly accessible translation by distinguished scholar. Topics include the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola. Informative introduction and 52-page supplement.Archimedes is the author of 'Works of Archimedes', published 2002 under ISBN 9780486420844 and ISBN 0486420841.
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