The Sand-reckoner of Archimedes, Score Archim

By Heath, Thomas

Book Id: WPLBN0003466888
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File Size: 62.30 MB
Reproduction Date: 2015

Title:	The Sand-reckoner of Archimedes, Score Archim
Author:	Heath, Thomas
Volume:
Language:	English
Subject:	Sacred Texts, Classics, California
Collections:	Classic Sacred Texts
Historic Publication Date:	1897
Publisher:	Internet Sacred Text Archive (ISTA)


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Description
Description: This short treatise of Archimedes on the amount of sand grains which could be contained in the ancient model of the universe is remarkable. It uses some extremely large numbers, given that this was antiquity and Europeans did not yet have the