Completing Book II of Archimedes's ``On floating bodies

DOI10.1007/BF02986750zbMath1069.01004MaRDI QIDQ1777526

Chris Rorres

Publication date: 23 May 2005

Published in: The Mathematical Intelligencer (Search for Journal in Brave)

zbMATH Keywords

stability analysisfloating bodysolidArchimedesparaboloidconvex objectlaw of buoyancy

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Statics (70C20) History of Greek and Roman mathematics (01A20) History of mechanics of particles and systems (70-03)

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Cites Work

• The Impact of Archimedes on Medieval Science
• How Things Float
• Solution of the Cattle Problem of Archimedes
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