The History of a Lemma from Archimedes to Newton
In this work, we identify some traces of the history of <i>Archimedes’ straight line</i>, a lemma introduced by Archimedes within the solution of prop. II 4 of <i>On the Sphere and Cylinder</i>, in which it is asked to cut a sphere with a plane in order to obtain two spherica...
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MDPI AG
2023-02-01
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| Series: | Mathematics |
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| Online Access: | https://www.mdpi.com/2227-7390/11/3/747 |