Thomas Little Heath

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1) Aristarchus of Samos, the ancient Copernicus: a history of Greek astonomy to Aristarchus, together with Aristarchus's Treatise on the size and distance of the sun and moon

Author

Heath, Thomas Little

Pub. Date

1959

Physical Desc

vi pages, 2 unnumbered pages, 245 pages, 1 unnumbered page : illustrations ; 24 cm

Language

English

2) The works of Archimedes

Author

Archimedes

Pub. Date

2002

Physical Desc

clxxxvi, 326, 51 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

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The complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as 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. This edition offers...

3) The thirteen books of Euclid's Elements: Volume III,Books X-XIII and appendix

Author

Euclid

Series

Dover classics of science and mathematics

Publisher

Dover Publications

Pub. Date

1956.

Edition

Second edition, revised with additions.

Physical Desc

546 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Language

English

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This is the definitive edition of one of the very greatest classics of all time--the full Euclid, not an abridgement. Utilizing the text established by Heilberg, Sir Thomas Heath encompasses almost 2500 years of mathematical and historical study upon Euclid. This unabridged republication of the original enlarged edition contains the complete English text of all 13 books of the Elements, plus a critical apparatus which analyzes each definition, postulate,...