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1. Pictures of Archimedes - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   23 Mar 2025: The death of Archimedes depicted on a Roman floor mosaic.

2. Spiral of Archimedes - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Curves/Spiral/

   7 Mar 2023: This spiral was studied by Archimedes in about 225 BC in a work On Spirals. ... y. y. y-axis. Taking the pole as the centre of inversion, the spiral of Archimedes.

3. Lunar features - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Honours/LunarFeatures0/

   25 May 2025: About 350 mathematicians in our archive have lunar features (mostly craters) named after them. You can see an account of how these features were named and links to files of whom they were called after. You can see a Wikipedia article on the feature

4. Archimedes: "Quadrature of the parabola" - MacTutor History …

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

   7 Mar 2023: Archimedes to Dositheus greeting. When I heard that Conon, who was my friend in his lifetime, was dead, but that you were acquainted with Conon and withal versed in geometry, while ... conceded, so that it was recognised by most people that the problem

5. Archimedes Num An - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   6 Jul 2023: The following three propositions are contained in Archimedes' book Measurement of the Circle. ... This is consistent with Archimedes' proposition (iii) above. Some analysis shows that the quantity.

6. All Glossary Items - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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   6 Jul 2023: Archimedes' screw consists of a pipe in the shape of a helix with its lower end dipped in the water. ... From 214 to 211 he served in Sicily, where, after a two-year siege, he took Syracuse in a siege in which Archimedes died.

7. Archimedes album page

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miller/Store/archimedes.html

   19 Nov 2023: Click on a thumbnail to see the full image. Nicaragua 1971. German Democratic Republic 1973. San Marino 1982. Turks and Caicos Islands 1992. Guinea-Bissau 2008.

8. FAQ - MacTutor History of Mathematics

   https://mathshistory.st-andrews.ac.uk/Miscellaneous/faq/

   7 Mar 2023: So Archimedes and Lagrange were born in present-day Italy, Bolyai in Romania, Hilbert in Russia, etc.

9. Heinz Klaus Strick's histories - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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

   1 Jun 2025: You can see the biographies indexed by postage stamps at THIS LINK. Latest entry: Gumbel, Emil.. Heinz Klaus Strick's Home page is at.

10. Thomas Heath - MacTutor History of Mathematics

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    28 May 2025: 1896. In 1897, Heath gave the world his great edition of the works of Archimedes, and when the lost work of that genius, "The Method," was discovered at Constantinople, Heath translated ... the late Sir Thomas Heath of the Treasury; and of Archimedes the