BornSyracuse, (Sicily, Italy), 287 BCE
DiedSyracuse, (Sicily, Italy), 212 BCE
Archimedes. Courtesy of History of Science Collections, University of Oklahoma Libraries
This is a preview of subscription content, log in via an institution to check access.
Access this chapter
Tax calculation will be finalised at checkout
Purchases are for personal use only
Selected References
Archimedes (1953). The Works of Archimedes, edited by Sir Thomas L. Heath. New York: Dover. (Unabridged reissue of the 1897 edition.) (The foremost English translation of Archimedes’s works, edited in modern notation. Heath decided that, due to the high standard of Archimedes’s works, he would present the paper in modern notation so as to most clearly communicate the ideas of Archimedes. More faithful literal translations of his works are harder to find in English, though available in French, e. g., the books of Mugler.)
— (1970–1972). Archimède, edited by Charles Mugler. 4 Vols. Paris: Les Belles Lettres. (Translation is based on the edited Greek texts of J. L. Heiberg.)
— (1972–1975). Archimedis opera omnia, edited by J. L. Heiberg, with additional corrections by E.S. Stamatis. 4 Vols. Stuttgart: B. G. Teubner. (Reprint of 1910–1915 Leipzig edition.)
Blass, F. (1883). “Der Vater des Archimedes.” Astronomische Nachrichten 104: 255–256.
Dijksterhuis, E. J. (1987). Archimedes, translated by C. Dikshoorn, with a new bibliographic essay by Wilbur R. Knorr. Princeton New Jersey: Princeton University Press. (An excellent account of the life of Archimedes as well as an explanation of his major results.)
Heath, Sir Thomas L. (1913). Aristarchus of Samos, the Ancient Copernicus. Oxford: Clarendon Press. (Reprint, New York: Dover, 1981.)
Paulos, J. A. (1989). Innumeracy. New York: Hill and Wang.
Plutarch. (1917). Plutarch’s Lives. Vol. 5, Translated by Bernadotte Perrin. Loeb Classical Library, no. 87. Cambridge: Massachusetts, Harvard University Press.
Shapiro, Alan E. (1975). “Archimedes’s Measurement of the Sun’s Apparent Diameter.” Journal for the History of Astronomy 6: 75–83.
Vardi, Ilan (1998). “Archimedes’ Cattle Problem.” American Mathematical Monthly 105: 305–319.
— (Décembre 2000). “Archimède face à l’innombrable.” Pour la science: 40–43.
Author information
Authors and Affiliations
Editor information
Editors and Affiliations
Rights and permissions
Copyright information
© 2014 Springer Science+Business Media New York
About this entry
Cite this entry
Vardi, I. (2014). Archimedes. In: Hockey, T., et al. Biographical Encyclopedia of Astronomers. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_67
Download citation
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-9917-7_67
Published:
Publisher Name: Springer, New York, NY
Print ISBN: 978-1-4419-9916-0
Online ISBN: 978-1-4419-9917-7
eBook Packages: Physics and AstronomyReference Module Physical and Materials ScienceReference Module Chemistry, Materials and Physics