UID:
almafu_9959243194502883
Format:
1 online resource (x, 375 pages) :
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digital, PDF file(s).
Edition:
1st ed.
ISBN:
1-316-08518-X
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1-280-47759-8
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9786610477593
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0-511-19499-4
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0-511-19565-6
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0-511-19356-4
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0-511-31405-1
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0-511-48255-8
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0-511-19430-7
Uniform Title:
Works. 2004
Content:
Archimedes was the greatest scientist of antiquity and one of the greatest of all time. This book is Volume I of the first authoritative translation of his works into English. It is also the first publication of a major ancient Greek mathematician to include a critical edition of the diagrams and the first translation into English of Eutocius' ancient commentary on Archimedes. Furthermore, it is the first work to offer recent evidence based on the Archimedes Palimpsest, the major source for Archimedes, lost between 1915 and 1998. A commentary on the translated text studies the cognitive practice assumed in writing and reading the work, and it is Reviel Netz's aim to recover the original function of the text as an act of communication. Particular attention is paid to the aesthetic dimension of Archimedes' writings. Taken as a whole, the commentary offers a groundbreaking approach to the study of mathematical texts.
Note:
Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).
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COVER; HALF-TITLE; TITLE; COPYRIGHT; DEDICATION; CONTENTS; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; INTRODUCTION; 1 goal of the translation; 2 preliminary notes: conventions; 3 preliminary notes: archimedes ́ works; TRANSLATION AND COMMENTARY; ON THE SPHERE AND THE CYLINDER, BOOK I; ON THE SPHERE AND THE CYLINDER, BOOK II; EUTOCIUS' COMMENTARY TO ON THE SPHERE AND THE CYLINDER I; EUTOCIUS' COMMENTARY TO ON THE SPHERE AND THE CYLINDER II; BIBLIOGRAPHY; INDEX
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-11798-4
Additional Edition:
ISBN 0-521-66160-9
Language:
English
