We are republishing these classic works in affordable, high quality, modern editions, using the original text and artwork. Volume 1 of the first authoritative translation of Archimedes' works into English. This is the second volume of the first fully-fledged English translation of the works of Archimedes - antiquity's greatest scientist and one of the most important scientific figures in history.
It covers On Spirals and is based on a reconsideration of the Greek text and diagrams, now made possible through new discoveries from the Archimedes Palimpsest. His treatises, rediscovered after a thousand years of collective amnesia in Europe, guided nascent thinkers out of the Dark Ages and into the Renaissance. Indeed, Archimedes' cumulative record of achievement-both in breadth and sophistication-places him among the exalted ranks of Aristotle, Leonardo da Vinci, Isaac Newton, and Albert Einstein.
Eureka Man brings to life for general readers the genius of Archimedes, offering succinct and understandable explanations of some of his more important discoveries and innovations. He calculated properties of circles, spheres, cylinders, and cones, writing equations that we still use today. He calculated [p] and came very close to discovering calculus, nearly beating Sir Isaac Newton by 2, years.
He discovered why things float or sink. He learned why levers work. This creative genius saw math everywhere, from seashells to the fearsome war machines—like the catapult, missiles, and even a mirrored laser—he made to defend his hometown from the Roman navy. In the mind of this master of thought, math truly held the secrets to the universe. The story of the amazing discovery of Archimedes' lost works Drawings and writings by Archimedes, previously thought to have been destroyed, have been uncovered beneath the pages of a 13th-century monk's prayer book.
These hidden texts, slowly being retrieved and deciphered by scientists, show that Archimedes' thinking 2, years ago was even ahead of Isaac Newton in the 17th century.
Archimedes discovered the value of Pi, he developed the theory of specific gravity and made steps towards the development of calculus. Everything we know about him comes from three manuscripts, two of which have disappeared. The third, currently in the Walters Art Museum, is a palimpsest - the text has been scraped off, the book taken apart and its parchment re-used, in this case as a prayer book. William Noel, the project director, and Reviel Netz, a historian of ancient mathematics, tell the enthralling story of the survival of that prayer book from to the present, and examine the process of recovering the invaluable text underneath as well as investigating into why that text is so important.
An original and profound thinker, Archimedes was a mathematician, a physicist, a mechanical engineer, and an inventor. He is most famous for proving the law of the lever and inventing the compound pulley. Skip to content. Archimedes and the Door of Science. Archimedes and the Door of Science Book Review:. The Works of Archimedes. Author : Archimedes Publsiher : Cosimo, Inc. The Works of Archimedes Book Review:. Time s Arrow and Archimedes Point. Archimedes Book Review:. Author : S. Archimedes in the 21st Century.
Archimedes in the 21st Century Book Review:. This is true especially on points such as the one where Netz suggests that a certain reading may be an error due to the presence in the archetype of a particular abbreviation for! One of the most original and most interesting contributions of Netz's work is a critical edition of the diagrams that accompany Archimedes' text.
Netz claims, with a good deal of plausibility, that the diagrams go back to Archimedes himself, and he has carefully documented the various forms in which each appears in the different manuscripts. Many previous translations of Archimedes have simply redrawn the diagrams to make them adhere to the modern conventions of diagram construction, and even Heiberg was less scrupulous about the diagrams than about the Greek text.
Netz is truly a pioneer in his interest in the ancient conventions of mathematical diagrams, and his reconstructions and commentary on them are particularly useful -- not to mention fascinating. The translation of Eutocius' commentaries is another particularly valuable aspect of Netz's work. The commentaries are extremely important, not only because they help us understand what Archimedes actually wrote and what he meant by it for example, a significant amount of Archimedes' text has been lost from the direct manuscript tradition and is preserved only in Eutocius' version , but also because they reveal a great deal about how the ancients understood and used the works of Archimedes and because they preserve substantial amounts of the work of other ancient mathematicians whose writings are now otherwise lost.
For this reason Eutocius' commentaries are included in Heiberg's edition of Archimedes, but they are omitted from most previous translations, thus depriving monolingual English speakers of an important aid to understanding Archimedes. The inclusion of the commentaries in this translation thus gives it a significant advantage over others. Netz also provides notes to Eutocius; though these are much less extensive than his commentary on Archimedes, they are also very valuable, especially given how little work has been done on Eutocius.
A critical edition of Eutocius' diagrams is similarly important. This first volume of Netz's translation contains a work of Archimedes that is already available in two other English versions: T.
Dijksterhuis' Dutch version translated into English by C. Dikshoorn as Archimedes Copenhagen Both these versions are very free renditions -- Dijksterhuis' work in particular is a retelling rather than a translation -- and convert all the mathematics into notation more intelligible to the modern reader; in addition, Heath's version is based on an inferior Greek text.
Thus Netz's claim to be producing the first English translation of Archimedes p. There are already, however, complete translations in several other commonly-read languages. Mugler, and the Latin one in the Teubner by Heiberg as above.
The works of Archimedes Item Preview. EMBED for wordpress. Want more? Advanced embedding details, examples, and help! Introduction: I. Manuscripts and principal editions, order of composition, dialect, lost works. Relation of Archimedes to his predecessors. Arithmetic in Archimedes.
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