METRICAL SOLUTIONSDERIVED FROMMECHANICSTREATISE BV ARCHIMEDESRECENTLY DISCOVERED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK BYDR. L. HEIBERGJ.CHICAGOE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANYLONDON AGENTSKEGAN PAUL, TRENCH, TRUBNER & LTD.CO.,GEOMETRICAL SOLUTIONSDERIVED FROMMECHANICSA TREATISE OF ARCHIMEDESRECENTLY DISCOVERED AND TRANSLATED FROM THE GREEK BYDR. L. HEIBERGJ.PROFESSOR OF CLASSICAL PHILOLOGY AT THE UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGENWITH AN INTRODUCTION BYDAVID EUGENE SMITHPRESIDENT OF TEACHER S COLUMBIACOLLEGE, UNIVERSITY, NEW YORKENGLISH VERSION TRANSLATED FROM THE GERMAN BY LYDIA G. ROBINSONAND REPRINTED FROM "THE MONIST," APRIL, 1909.CHICAGOTHE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING COMPANYLONDON AGENTSKEGAN TRUBNER & LTD.PAUL, TRENCH, CO.,1909VCOPYRIGHT BYTHE OPEN COURT PUBLISHING Co.1909INTRODUCTION.there ever was a case of inappropriateness discovery,IFthe of this in the summer ofmanuscriptfinding 1906was one. In the first it thatwas the displace appropriateshould be made in itsince was herecovery Constantinople,that theWest received its first of the other exmanuscriptstant innine of the It wasworks, number, great Syracusan.furthermore that the should be madeappropriate discoveryProfessor all workersby facilis princepsHeiberg, amongin the field of the classics of Greek mathematics,editingand an searcher of the libraries ofindefatigable Europefor to aid him in his labors. Andmanuscripts perfectingit was most thisthat work shouldfinally ...
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