The Works of Archimedes and three shorter pieces for

and three shorter pieces for piano: Prèlude

the use of jargon

waves in supersonic flow

political equality

with designs of Sheraton and Hepplewhite

The Works of Archimedes and three shorter pieces forThe complete works of antiquity's great geometer appear here in a highly accessible English translation by a distinguished scholar. Remarkable for his range of thought and his mastery of treatment, Archimedes addressed such topics as the famous problems of the ratio of the areas of a cylinder and an inscribed sphere; the measurement of a circle; the properties of conoids, spheroids, and spirals; and the quadrature of the parabola. This edition offers