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<dl><dd>List of the principal works consulted: p. [xi]-xii</dd>
<dd>Introduction: I. Archimedes. II. Manuscripts and principal editions, order of composition, dialect, lost works. III. Relation of Archimedes to his predecessors. IV. Arithmetic in Archimedes. V. On the problems known as NEUSEIS (romanized form) VI. Cubic equations. VII. Anticipations by Archimedes of the integral calculus. VIII. The terminology of Archimedes.--Works: On the sphere and cylinder, books I-II. Measurement of a circle. On conoids and spheroids. On sprials. On the equilibrium of planes, books I-II. The sand-reckoner. Quadrature of the parabola. On floating bodies, books I--II. Book of lemmas. The cattle-problem [including the solution of Wurm's problem by Amthor in Zeitschrift für math. u. phys. (Hist. litt. abth.) v. 25, 1880]</dd>
<dd>Mode of access: Internet</dd></dl><br>Subjects: Mathematics, Greek; Geometry; Mathematics; Mechanics</div>
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<dl><dd>Archimedes</dd>
<dd>Heath, Thomas Little, Sir, 1861-1940</dd></dl></div>
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