Book:Archimedes/The Method/Historical Note
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Historical Note on The Method by Archimedes
This work was found by Johan Ludvig Heiberg on a palimpsest in Constantinople in $1906$, having been lost for nearly $1000$ years.
It had originally been written by Archimedes in the form of a letter from Archimedes to his friend Eratosthenes of Cyrene.
The manuscript it appeared on was sold in $1998$ to a private buyer for $2$ million dollars.
Sources
- 1937: Eric Temple Bell: Men of Mathematics ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text{II}$: Modern Minds in Ancient Bodies
- 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {A}.5$: Archimedes (ca. $\text {287}$ – $\text {212}$ B.C.)
- 1992: George F. Simmons: Calculus Gems ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $\text {B}.6$: How Archimedes Discovered Integration
- 2008: Ian Stewart: Taming the Infinite ... (previous) ... (next): Chapter $2$: The Logic of Shape: Archimedes