On an alleged error in Archimedes' Conoids, Prop. 1

DOI10.1006/HMAT.1993.1016MaRDI QIDQ2367153zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Wilbur R. Knorr

Publication date 17 August 1993

Published in Historia Mathematica (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://doi.org/10.1006/hmat.1993.1016

zbMATH Keywords

conoids and spheroidsproportion theorysummation rule

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mathematics in the 15th and 16th centuries, Renaissance (01A40)

Review text

According to Heath and Dijksterhuis, Archimedes' proof of a summation rule, as given in proposition 1 of his ``Conoids and spheroids, is not correct. The author shows that this is not true, because a proof along the lines supplied by Heiberg was actually not part of Archimedes' text. F. Commandino has in his Latin edition of Archimedes (1558) a correct treatment by supplying the derivations which Archimedes omitted for the intermediate steps of his proof.

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