Texts related to Archimedes
This site hosts a Canonical Text Services (CTS) installation that is planned to
offer texts by and about the greatest mathematician of classical antiquity, Archimedes.
Greek texts incorporating new readings from the Archimedes Palimpsest project
will be included. Versions of other texts will primarily include works in English translation.
Editions in Latin or Greek of many of these texts are available from a CTS of
selected texts for courses at Holy Cross College
.
Although CTS is primarily intended as a service to
other computer programs, the XML replies to CTS queries
on this site include simple XSLT transformations that allow end users to
view the replies formatted for reading in a Web browser.
Browse texts
New mash-up view
Read Thomas Heath's English translation of
On Floating Bodies
using a stylesheet that
interleaves images of diagrams from the Archimedes Palimpsest