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Archimedes and the Roman imagination /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jaeger, Mary, 1960-
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, [2008]
Subjects:
Archimedes.
Mathematicians > Greece > Biography.
Mathematics, Ancient.
Online Access:Publisher description
Table of Contents:
  • 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.