corpus of Archimedes

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The corpus of Archimedes is the collected body of mathematical and scientific works by the ancient Greek mathematician Archimedes, encompassing his influential treatises on geometry, mechanics, and hydrostatics.

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instanceOf collection of works
mathematical corpus
scientific corpus
hasAuthor Archimedes NERFINISHED
hasField astronomy
geometry
hydrostatics
mathematical physics
mathematics
mechanics
number theory
hasImportantSource Archimedes Palimpsest NERFINISHED
hasInfluenced Hellenistic mathematics NERFINISHED
Renaissance science
early modern mechanics
medieval Islamic mathematics
hasKeyConcept Archimedes’ principle NERFINISHED
approximation of pi
area of a parabola segment
center of gravity
combinatorial enumeration (Stomachion) NERFINISHED
hydrostatic equilibrium
large-number notation
law of the lever
mechanical method of discovery
method of exhaustion
spiral of Archimedes NERFINISHED
volume of solids of revolution
hasLanguage Ancient Greek
hasTransmission Arabic translations
Greek manuscripts
Latin translations
hasWork Book of Lemmas NERFINISHED
On Conoids and Spheroids NERFINISHED
On Floating Bodies NERFINISHED
On Spirals NERFINISHED
On the Equilibrium of Planes NERFINISHED
On the Equilibrium of Planes, Book I NERFINISHED
On the Equilibrium of Planes, Book II NERFINISHED
On the Measurement of the Circle NERFINISHED
On the Sphere and Cylinder NERFINISHED
On the Sphere and Cylinder, Book I NERFINISHED
On the Sphere and Cylinder, Book II NERFINISHED
Ostomachion NERFINISHED
Stomachion NERFINISHED
The Cattle Problem NERFINISHED
The Method of Mechanical Theorems NERFINISHED
The Quadrature of the Parabola NERFINISHED
The Sand Reckoner NERFINISHED
timeOfOrigin 3rd century BCE

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On Conoids and Spheroids partOf corpus of Archimedes