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On Spirals

Name: On Spirals
Author: Archimedes

On Spirals is a treatise by Archimedes, written around 225 BC. Although Archimedes did not discover the Archimedean spiral, he employed it in this book to square the circle and trisect an angle.

“Those who claim to discover everything but produce no proofs of the same may be confuted as having actually pretended to discover the impossible.”

Archimedes book On Spirals

On Spirals (225 B.C.)

“How many theorems in geometry which have seemed at first impracticable are in time successfully worked out!”

Archimedes book On Spirals

On Spirals (225 B.C.)

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