Archimedes and the Roman imagination / Mary Jaeger.
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| Year of Publication: | 2008 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | ix, 230 p. |
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Table of Contents:
- 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.