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1. 1. The Works of Archimedes

   Including The Method

   

   This book is a compilation of the surviving works of one of the greatest mathematicians and inventors of all time. It includes his theories and discoveries in fields such as geometry, calculus, physics, and engineering. Readers will find his famous treatises on the lever, the sphere and the cylinder, floating bodies, and the measurement of a circle, among others. The book also contains his explanations of the principles of mechanics, the concept of equilibrium, and the center of gravity of plane figures.

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2. 2. The Sand Reckoner Of Archimedes

   

   A concise mathematical treatise that devises a method for naming and handling extremely large numbers beyond the limits of contemporary Greek numeration, develops notation and procedures to express successive orders of magnitude, and applies this system to compute an upper bound for the number of grains of sand that could fill the cosmos as then conceived, illustrating the ideas with geometric arguments and numerical examples.

3. 3. Measurement Of A Circle

   

   A concise geometric treatise that proves the area of a circle equals the area of a right triangle with legs equal to the radius and the circumference, derives the relation between circumference and diameter, and employs the method of exhaustion—using inscribed and circumscribed regular polygons (up to a 96-gon)—to obtain rigorous numerical bounds for the constant now called π (notably 223/71 < π < 22/7), with clear constructions and proofs for approximating a circle’s circumference and area.