Tangent to Archimedean Spiral at Point
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Historical Note
The Tangent to Archimedean Spiral at Point was first determined by Archimedes in his book On Spirals.
His proof appears as Proposition $20$.
It is suggested that the method used by Archimedes anticipated the methods of differential calculus.