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.