Archimedes

Sir Thomas Little Heath

Complete works of ancient geometer in highly accessible translation by distinguished scholar. Topics include the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola. Informative introduction and 52-page supplement.

The Works of Archimedes

Euclid

Contains the complete English text of all thirteen books of the "Elements," along with critical analysis of each definition, postulate, and proposition.

The Thirteen Books of Euclid's Elements

Thomas Little Heath

Volume 1 of an authoritative two-volume set that covers the essentials of mathematics and includes every landmark innovation and every important figure. This volume features Euclid, Apollonius, others.

A History of Greek Mathematics

Apollonius (of Perga.)

Treatise on Conic Sections with Introductions Including an Essay on Earlier History on the Subject

Apollonius of Perga

A History of Greek Mathematics: From Aristarchus to Diophantus

Mathematics in Aristotle

Sir Thomas Little Heath

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