The Works Of Archimedes
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| Rating | : | 4.86 (843 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1149581816 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 524 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-10-22 |
| Language | : | English |
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"This volume, and the overall project it launches, is a most welcome addition to the scholarship on Hellenistic mathematics and the mathematical sciences." Nathan Sidoli, University of Toronto"this work is an important, interesting, and very welcome contribution to the field of ancient mathematics." Bryn Mawr Classical Review
that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.. This is a reproduction of a book published before 1923
NOT the Works of Archimedes! S. D. Weitzenhoffer This review is for the 46-page CreateSpace edition, NOT the 326-page Dover publication.The CreateSpace book is NOT the works of Archimedes, but a brief commentary on them.Unfortunately, because the titles are the same, Amazon lumps all the reviews together.THEY ARE NOT THE SAME BOOK.If you are looking for a translation of Archimedes' works, get the Dover edition.I admit, the mistake was partly mine, as I should have seen the page count and realised it was wrong. Don't get Archimedes-Screwed! This is NOT what it looks like. The Works of Archimedes by T. L. Heath is NOT contained in these pages!What you get is a 20 page magazine-sized "book", that's made to LOOK like the real thing. All that's in it are the brief chapter overviews written by Heath, ALL ACTUAL CONTENT FROM ARCHIMEDES HAS BEEN LEFT OUT. No publisher listed, no explanation on why everything was left out flipping through it now I still can't comprehend what I'm looking at. As a fan of Greek mathematics I can definitely. Stuart M. Anderson said Needs diagrams. The works of Archimedes without diagrams. Also with badly formatted equations, occasional Greek text rendered as Roman alphabet gibberish, some numbers substitued as letters ( e.g. "G" instead of "6"), and many other typographical inadequacies. It is basically a raw scan followed by automatic character recognition. It needs maybe several hundred hours of a human editor's time to be worth anything, and then it will cost substantially more than 99 cents. Right no