Published in 1880-1, this three-volume edition of the extant works
of the Greek mathematician Archimedes of Syracuse (c.287-c.212 BCE)
was edited by the Danish philologist and historian Johan Ludvig
Heiberg (1854-1928), whose Quaestiones Archimedeae (1879) is also
reissued in this series. He later discovered a medieval palimpsest
containing lost works by Archimedes, which significantly expanded
the canon, but the present collection was produced long before this
and therefore contains the works known at the time of publication.
Heiberg consulted a Florentine codex, which he painstakingly
compared with other sources to produce his edition. This third
volume contains the editor's Latin prolegomena - his own extended
essay on the works of Archimedes - followed by the commentaries on
Archimedes by Eutocius of Ascalon (c.480-c.540) and indexes. The
texts are given in the original Greek with parallel Latin
translation, notes and introductory material.
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