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This biography examines the life and work of Archimedes, the ancient mathematician and inventor. It details his early education in Alexandria, his connection to the royal family of Syracuse, and the mechanical and mathematical contributions that defined his career before his death in 212 B.C.

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Archimedes

Measurement of a Circle , On Spirals , Quadrature of the Parabola , On Conoids and Spheroids , The Sandreckoner . Isaac Barrow’s version was contained in Opera Archimedis , Apollonii Pergœi conicorum libri , Theodosii Sphœrica , methodo novo illustrata et demonstrata (London, 1675). The first French version of the works was by Peyrard in two volumes (second edition, 1808). A valuable German translation, with notes, by E. Nizze, was published at Stralsund in 1824. There is a complete edition in modern notation by T. L. Heath ( The Works of Archimedes , Cambridge, 1897, supplemented by The Method of Archimedes , Cambridge, 1912).

CHRONOLOGY.

(APPROXIMATE IN SOME CASES.)
B.C.
624-547Thales
572-497Pythagoras
500-428Anaxagoras
470-400Hippocrates of Chios
Hippias of Elis
470-380Democritus
460-385Theodorus of Cyrene
430-360Archytas of Taras (Tarentum)
427-347Plato
415-369Theætetus
408-355Eudoxus of Cnidos
fl. about 350Leon
Menæchmus
Dinostratus
Theudius
fl. 300Euclid
310-230Aristarchus of Samos
287-212Archimedes
284-203Eratosthenes
265-190Apollonius of Perga
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