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1. Eutocius (480 - 540) - Biography - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Eutocius/

   7 Mar 2023: Died. about 540. Summary. Eutocius was a Greek mathematician who wrote commentaries on works of Archimedes and Apollonius. ... Eutocius wrote commentaries on three works of Archimedes.

2. Greek sources I - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/HistTopics/Greek_sources_1/

   7 Mar 2023: In 1899 an exceptionally important event occurred in our understanding of the works of Archimedes. ... The underlying text, in this case works of Archimedes, is said to be "in palimpsest".

3. Dijksterhuis books - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Dijksterhuis_books/

   12 Jul 2023: It will immediately establish itself as a companion to T L Heath's English paraphrase of the works of Archimedes. ... It is inevitable that this volume be compared with The Works of Archimedes by Sir Thomas Heath (1897, recently reissued by Dover, New

4. Chronology for 500 - 900 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/4/

   7 Mar 2023: Eutocius of Ascalon writes commentaries on Archimedes' work. ... Eutocius writes commentaries on the works of Archimedes anda mathematician of note, is the architect for the Hagia Sophia at Constantinople.

5. Italian Academy of Sciences - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Societies/Italy/

   7 Mar 2023: Giuseppe Toaldo (1719-1797). A Catholic priest and physicist, he edited Galileo's works and later became professor of astronomy at the University of Padua. ... Giuseppe Torelli (1721-1781). A mathematician and literary man, he worked at Verona and

6. Earliest Known Uses of Some of the Words of Mathematics (A) -…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/mathword/a/

   30 Dec 2023: I am skeptical about Newton's use of "analytic geometry" in other works as well. ... APPLIED MATHEMATICS. See the entry. PURE and APPLIED MATHEMATICS. The term ARBELOS is apparently due toin his "The Works of Archimedes" [Cambridge: At the University

7. Archimedes (287 BC - 212 BC) - Biography - MacTutor History of…

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Biographies/Archimedes/

   30 Dec 2023: The paper [47] looks at arguments for a different chronological order of Archimedes' works. ... I G Basmakova, Differential methods in the works of Archimedes (Russian), Istor.-Mat.

8. Marin Mersenne English version PDF (570k)

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Strick/mersenne.pdf

   3 Mar 2021: In 1626 MERSENNE published translations of works by the Greek mathematicians EUCLID, APOLLONIUS and ARCHIMEDES. ... He also made a proposal for the definition of a "well-tempered" semitone: 0597,1423.

9. Chronology for 500 BC - 1 - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Chronology/2/

   7 Mar 2023: He also proposes that the Earth orbits the Sun. In On the Sphere and the Cylinder, Archimedes gives the formulae for calculating the volume of a sphere and a cylinder. ... In Floating Bodies he presents what is now called "Archimedes' principle" and

10. Knorr's papers - MacTutor History of Mathematics

    https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Extras/Knorr_papers/

    12 Jul 2023: Moreover, I have been led to the view that Archimedes depended on certain pre-Euclidean works, not the Euclidean edition of the 'Elements', as his source for proportion theory and other ... Its composer and the agent of its insertion into the Conies