Archimedes 250 The Works Of Archimedes

UNIVERSAL LIBRARY AYVAYA! I IWSYSAINN OSMANIA UNIVERSITY LIBRARY Call No. δ μία WAccession No. aja Author He a i I, TL. 'Title (er ΓΦ GA Chios book should beRreturned on or before the dat last marked helaw [ὃ 7 7 II WORKS OF ARCHIMIS Diss. Hondon: ©. J. CLAY anp SONS, CAMBRIDGE UNIVERSITY PRESS WAREHOUSE, AVE MARIA LANE. Glasgow: 263, ARGYLE STREET. Reipsig: F. A. BROCKHAUS fees Work: THE MACMILLAN COMPANY. PREFACE. ves book is intended to form a companion volume to my edition of the treatise of Apollonius on Conic Sections lately published. If it was worth while to attempt to make the work of "the great geometer" accessible to the mathematician of to-day who might not be able, in consequence of its length and of its form, either to read it in the original Greek or in a Latin translation, or, having read it, to master it and grasp the whole scheme of the treatise, I feel that I owe even less of an apology for offering to the public a reproduction, on the same lines, of the extant works of perhaps the greatest mathematical genius that the world has ever seen. Michel Chasles has drawn an instructive distinction between the predominant features of the geometry of Archimedes and of the geometry which we find so highly developed in Apollonius. Their works may be regarded, says Chasles, as the origin and basis of two great inquiries which seem to share between them th…