Quaestiones Archimedeae (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781108062961)

Published in 1879, this Latin dissertation was the first substantial work on Archimedes by the Danish philologist and historian Johan Ludvig Heiberg (1854-1928), who the following year embarked on editing the three-volume Archimedis Opera Omnia (also reissued in this series). Much later, in 1906, he discovered a palimpsest containing previously unknown works by the Greek mathematician. The Quaestiones includes chapters on the life of the famous scientist of Syracuse, a discussion of his works and explanations of his mathematical and scientific ideas, as well as a survey of the extant codices known to the author. It also contains the Greek text, edited and annotated by Heiberg, of Archimedes' Psammites (The Sand Reckoner), a mathematical enquiry into how many grains of sand would fit in the universe. This includes mention of a heliocentric solar system, speculation about the size of the Earth, and Archimedes' other views on astronomy.

Author: Johan Ludvig Heiberg
ISBN-10: 1108062962
ISBN-13: 9781108062961
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Language: English
Published: 06/27/2013
Pages: 214
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.61lbs
Size: 8.50h x 5.50w x 0.49d