Conclusion
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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Rorres, C. Completing Book II of Archimedes’s On Floating Bodies. The Mathematical Intelligencer 26, 32–42 (2004). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02986750
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