Book:Archimedes/On Spirals

Subject Matter

 * Archimedean Spiral

Contents

 * $28$ propositions, including:
 * Proposition $20$: Tangent to Archimedean Spiral at Point
 * Proposition $24$: Area Enclosed by First Turn of Archimedean Spiral

Critical View

 * Some sources suggest that his discovery of the Tangent to Archimedean Spiral at Point was discovered by techniques which are nothing short of differential calculus.