• DOI:10.1080/00029890.2018.1413857
Corpus ID: 125559661

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}
}

• Andrew S. Leahy
• Published 2018
• Mathematics, Computer Science
• The American Mathematical Monthly

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.