Archimedes and the Roman imagination [electronic resource] / Mary Jaeger.
By: Jaeger, Mary.
Contributor(s): ebrary, Inc.
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BookPublisher: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, c2008Description: ix, 230 p.Subject(s): Archimedes | Mathematicians -- Greece -- Biography | Mathematics, AncientGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 510.92 | B Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | URL | Copy number | Status | Date due | Item holds |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 209-223) and index.
The "Eureka" story -- Cicero at Archimedes' tomb -- Why two spheres? -- The afterlife of the spheres from the De republica -- A sketch of events at Syracuse -- Who killed Archimedes? -- The defense of Syracuse -- Claudian on Archimedes -- Petrarch's Archimedes -- Conclusion -- Notes.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2013. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.
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