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    Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes
    Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes
    Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes
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    Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics; a Treatise of Archimedes

    By Lydia Gillingham Robinson, Archimedes, J. L. (Johan Ludvig) Heiberg and David Eugene Smith

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    Release dateNov 27, 2013
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      Title: Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics A Treatise of Archimedes

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      \date{\vspace{\baselineskip} {\small Recently discovered and translated from the Greek by}\\ Dr. J. L. Heiberg\\ {\small Professor of Classical Philology at the University of Copenhagen}\\ \vspace{\baselineskip} {\small with an introduction by}\\ David Eugene Smith\\ {\small President of Teachers College, Columbia University, New York}\\ \vspace{\baselineskip} {\small English version translated from the German by}\\ Lydia G. Robinson\\ {\small and reprinted from ``The Monist,'' April, 1909}\\ \vspace{\baselineskip} {\small Project Gutenberg edition:\\ gbn0305181551: Archimedes, Geometrical Solutions Derived from Mechanics. Gordon Keener $<$gkeener@nc.rr.com$>$. 1909c. 5/19/2003. ok.} }

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      \section*{Introduction}

      If there ever was a case of appropriateness in discovery, the finding of this manuscript in the summer of 1906 was one. In the first place it was appropriate that the discovery should be made in Constantinople, since it was here that the West received its first manuscripts of the other extant works, nine in number, of the great Syracusan. It was furthermore appropriate that the discovery should be made by Professor Heiberg, \emph{facilis princeps} among all workers in the field of editing the classics of Greek mathematics, and an indefatigable searcher of the libraries of Europe for manuscripts to aid him in perfecting his labors. And finally it was most appropriate that this work should appear at a time when the affiliation of pure and applied mathematics is becoming so generally recognized all over the world. We are sometimes led to feel, in considering isolated cases, that the great contributors of the past have worked in the field of pure mathematics alone, and the saying of Plutarch that Archimedes felt that ``every kind of art connected with daily needs was ignoble and vulgar''\footnote{Marcellus, 17.} may have strengthened this feeling. It therefore assists us in properly orientating ourselves to read another treatise from the greatest mathematician of antiquity that sets clearly before us his indebtedness to the mechanical applications of his subject.

      Not the least interesting of the passages in the manuscript is the first line, the greeting to Eratosthenes. It is well known, on the testimony of Diodoros his countryman, that Archimedes studied in Alexandria, and the latter frequently makes mention of Konon of Samos whom he knew there, probably as a teacher, and to whom he was indebted for the suggestion of the spiral that bears his name. It is also related, this time by Proclos, that Eratosthenes was a contemporary of Archimedes, and if the testimony of so late a writer as Tzetzes, who lived in the twelfth century, may be taken as valid, the former was eleven years the junior of the great Sicilian. Until now, however, we have had nothing definite to show that the two were ever acquainted. The great Alexandrian savant,—-poet, geographer, arithmetician,—-affectionately called by the students Pentathlos, the champion in five sports,\footnote{His

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