Abstract

One need only glance at Archimedes’s Proposition 8 above to see thatOn Floating Bodies is several orders of magnitude more sophisticated than anything else found in ancient mathematics. It ranks with Newton’sPrincipia Mathematica as a work in which basic physical laws are both formulated and accompanied by superb applications.

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