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The Sand Reckoner - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Blogged on: April 7, 2007, 12:23 pm
Work by Archimedes in which he sets out to determine an upper bound for the number of grains of sand that fit into the universe. In order to do this, he has to estimate the size of the universe according to the then-current model, and invent a way to talk
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astronomy | history | ancient | mathematics
Archimedes Palimpsest
Blogged on: November 29, 2006, 10:28 pm
This tenth century manuscript is the unique source for two of Archimedes Treatises, The Method and Stomachion, and it is the unique source for the Greek text of On Floating Bodies. Discovered in 1906 by J.L. Heiberg, it plays a prominent role in his 1910-
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Archimedes Palimpsest - Report - New York Times
Blogged on: November 29, 2006, 10:20 pm
The Archimedes Palimpsest, sold at auction at Christie’s for $2 million in 1998, is best known for containing some of the oldest copies of work by the great Greek mathematician who gives the manuscript its name. But there is more to the palimpsest than
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LacusCurtius
Blogged on: October 8, 2006, 2:37 pm
A Gateway to Ancient Rome.
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Oudheid.startpagina.nl
Blogged on: September 22, 2006, 10:18 am
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