Mathematical Treasure: Isaac Barrow's Lecture on Archimedes

The lectures of Isaac Barrow (1630-1677), who served as Lucasian Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University from 1663 to 1669, were collected and published by John Collins (1624-1683). This is Barrow's lecture on Archimedes’ theories on the cylinder and the sphere, published posthumously in 1678:

The first page of the lecture:

A discussion on the cone and its relation to a sphere:

These images are shown through the courtesy of the European e-rara archive, where this work may be viewed in its entirety

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