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Chapter 3 - The Generation of Archimedes

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 September 2022

Reviel Netz
Reviel Netz
Affiliation:
Stanford University, California
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Summary

This chapter is a kind of rondo, with Archimedes as its main theme. In outline, with five subchapters:

  1. I. Prelude to Archimedes

  2. II. Enter Archimedes

  3. III. Response to Archimedes: Apollonius

  4. IV. Archimedes’s Physics

  5. V. Response to Archimedes: The Generation

And now, to the detailed plan of the chapter.

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A New History of Greek Mathematics , pp. 107 - 220
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • The Generation of Archimedes
  • Reviel Netz, Stanford University, California
  • Book: A New History of Greek Mathematics
  • Online publication: 01 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108982801.004
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  • The Generation of Archimedes
  • Reviel Netz, Stanford University, California
  • Book: A New History of Greek Mathematics
  • Online publication: 01 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108982801.004
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  • The Generation of Archimedes
  • Reviel Netz, Stanford University, California
  • Book: A New History of Greek Mathematics
  • Online publication: 01 September 2022
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108982801.004
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