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111 INDEX Ab urbe condita, 11, 101n5 abacus, 80, 104n7; Treatise on the Abacus, 106n4 Acerbi, Fabio, 101n8 Africa, 81, 105n10 Agrimensori, Plate 1 Alexandria, Egypt, xii, xiii, 2, 4, 5, 26, 43, 55, 56, 61, 70, 73, 77, 78, 83, 98n4, 99n2, 104n4 Alexandris (ship), 61 algebra(ic), 4, 56 Amaryllis, 104n6 Amthor, A., 56 analysis: see infinitesimal analysis; numerical analysis Anthemius of Tralles, 102n8 Apollonius Rhodius, 105n10 Apuleius, 66, 102n7 Arabic, 49, 54, 66, 87, 101n5, 102n8, 105n2 Archidamus III, 12, 93 Archimede (journal), 92 Archimede Pitagorico (Pythagorean Archimedes), 91 Archimenedes, 105n2 Archytas, 48, 82–83 area, 6, 15, 19, 30, 40, 88, 100n5; surface, 41, 48 argumentum ad absurdum, 6, 40 Aristarchus of Samos, 51, 54, 100n4 Aristotle, 73 arithmetic, ix, 5, 53, 81 Arpinum, 86 Arsamithes, 105n2 Ascalon, 43 Astronomica, 17 astronomy, 41, 53–54, 75, 81 Athenaeus, 59, 61; see also Deipnosophistae Athens, 69 Ausonius, 55; see also Cento Nuptialis 112 INDEX balance, 23–24, Plate 16; see also fulcrum Baltimore, 70, 99n6, 103n1, Plate 14 Banker, James R., 106n4 Basel, 52, 88 bath/bathroom, 17, 33, 34, Plate 5 Battus (tomb of), 80 Bergmann, Uwe, 103n1 Bessarion, Cardinal, 20, 88 Bible, 17 Biblioteca: Marciana, 16, 20, 59, 88; Medicea Laurenziana, 106n4, Plate 2, Plate 16; Riccardiana , 106n4; Vaticana, 87 Boethius, 87 Bonaparte, Jerome, 12 Bonaparte, Napoleon, 12 Book of Dilemmas, 100n5 Brescia, 46, 60 Brutium, xiv Burning Mirrors, On, 87, 102n8 California Gold Rush, 32 Callimachus, 78, 79, 80, 83; see also Lock of Berenice, The Calpurnius Siculus, 105n9 Cambiano, Giuseppe, 103n5 Campania, 12 Cannae (Battle of), xiv, 64 Carmen de ponderibus et mensuris , 99n4 Carthaginians, xiv Casini, Paolo, 106n7 Cassiodorus, 87 Casson, Lionel, 101n1 catapult, ix, 65, Plate 11; see also onager, trebuchet Cattle Problem, The, 54–56 Catullus, xi, 79–83, 104n6, n7; 105n12 center of gravity, 24, 36 Cento Nuptialis, 68 Cicero, x, 13, 39, 76–77, 79, 86, 97n5, 104n3, Plate 15; see also major works Tusculan Disputations ; De re publica circle, ix, 5, 6, 11, 15–19, 39, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47, 53, 54, 79, 100n4, 100n5; Measurement of a Circle, 15, 16, 18, 20, 43, 87; Size of the Circle, 18; squaring of the circle, 15 circumference, 15, 17–18, 44, 46, 47, 98n1, 100n4; rectification of the circumference, 15 cochlea (“snail”), 61; see also screw of Archimedes Colerus, Egmont, xi–xiii compass, 29, 72 cone, 19, 40, 41, 44, 45, 46, 47–48 conoids, ix, 39, 41; On Conoids and Spheroids, 2, 20, 40 Conon of Samos, xii, 2, 21, 29, 30, 73, 78–79, 83 corner ruler, 72 cretic (metrical unit), 77 cube: see hexahedron cuboctahedron, truncated, 26, 27 cylinder, 6, 13, 39, 40, 44, 46, 48, 54, 61, 76, 86, Plate 9, Plate 10A De architectura, 30, 33, 35, 36, 62, 64, 99n1, 101n3 De re publica, 13, 76, 97n5 De temperamentis, 66 Deipnosophistae, 59, 101n2 diameter, 2, 15, 18, 44, 46, 53, 54, 79 Diodorus Siculus, 61; see also Historical Library dodecahedron, 26 Dositheus, xii, 21, 29, 40, 48, 100n4 [34.204.181.19] Project MUSE (2024-03-19 14:13 GMT) INDEX 113 earth, 24, 37, 51, 54, 61, 75, 79, 81, 82, 100n4, 103n2, 104n8 Edison, Thomas, 94 Egypt/Egyptian, xiii, 61, 62, 78 ellipse, 19, 40, 41 ellipsoid, 40, 73 Enlightenment, 91 Ennius, 75, 77; Annales, 75 equilibrium, 23, 24, Plate 7; On the Equilibrium of Planes, 23, 24, 43 Eratosthenes, xii, 7, 55, 56, 70, 100n5, 104n4 Euclid, xiii, 4, 7, 25, 41 Eudoxus of Cnidus, 7, 40, 47 Eutocius, 43, 48, 52, 88 Favaro, Antonio, 5, 85 Fichera, Gaetano, 18–19, 98n4 Floating Bodies, On, 6, 36, 70, 99n6, Plate 7 fractions, 18, 100n6 Frajese, Attilio, 6, 72, 97n3, 100n2, 103n4 fulcrum, 23–25 Galen, 66; see also De temperamentis Galileo, x, 89, 99n2, Plate 2 Galletto, Dionigi, 98n1 Galluzzi, Massimo, 106n6 Gaul, 55 Gauls, Cisalpine (Insubri), 10 Gelon, 51, 104n8 geometry, xii, 4, 5, 9, 21, 41, 48, 53, 71, 83, 90, 93, Plate 1, Plate 10A; abstract, x; combinatorial, 55 Gerard of Cremona, 87 Geymonat, Ludovico, 106n3 Gille, Bertrand, 101n4 Giocondo, Fra, 35 gravity, 33; center of, 24, 36, 40 Hagia Sophia, 102n8 Hannibal, xiv, 10 Heiberg, Johan Ludvig, 69, 70, 90 Herculaneum, 12 Herzog August Bibliothek, Plate 1 hexagon, 17, 26, 27 hexahedron, 25 Hiero II of Syracuse, 2, 32–33, 34, 59, 61, 64, Plate 5 Hieronymus, 64, 69 Hilbert, David, xii Historical Library, 62 Holy Sepulcher, Monastery of, 69 Horace, 82, 83...