This classic text contains all the known works of Archimedes. Heath's introduction offers background information on the ancient mathematician's life and thought as well as the views of his contemporaries. Coverage includes such topics as the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere, the measurement of a circle, and the quadrature of the parabola. The volume, which is not indexed, is a reprint of the 1897 Cambridge University Press edition plus a 1912 supplement titled The Method of Archimedes . Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)