Definition:Loculus of Archimedes/Historical Note
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Historical Note on Loculus of Archimedes
The loculus of Archimedes appears in a fragmentary form in an Arabic manuscript The Book of Archimedes on the Division of the Figure Stomaschion.
It is also in the Archimedes Palimpsest which was discovered by Johan Ludvig Heiberg in $1906$.
Note that the version in the Archimedes Palimpsest is presented in rectangular form, and has been transformed here into a square, so as to match its usual presentation.
Sources
- 1992: David Wells: Curious and Interesting Puzzles ... (previous) ... (next): Loculus of Archimedes