Archimedes and the Roman imagination [Texte imprimé] /
Mary Jaeger
- Ann Arbor : University of Michigan Press, cop. 2011
- 1 vol. (IX-230 p.) ; 24 cm
Bibliogr. p. 209-223
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
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Mathematicians--Greece--Biography Mathematics, Ancient