The Method of Archimedes in the Seventeenth Century
@article{Leahy2018TheMO, title={The Method of Archimedes in the Seventeenth Century}, author={Andrew S. Leahy}, journal={The American Mathematical Monthly}, year={2018}, volume={125}, pages={267 - 272} }
Abstract In his Quadrature of the Parabola Solved by Many Methods through the New Geometry of Indivisibles, Evangelista Torricelli presented a proof of Archimedes’ quadrature formula that closely resembles Proposition I of Archimedes’ Method of Mechanical Theorems. We look at the historical precursors to this rediscovery, and compare the two proofs.
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