A LIST OF SOURCES 



I. PERIOD COVERED BY VOLUME I. 



ANAXAGORAS. See vol. i., p. 240. 



ARCHIMEDES. See vol. i., p. 196. 



Many of the works of Archimedes are lost, but the 

 following have come down to us: (i) On the Sphere and 

 Cylinder; (2) The Measure of the Circle; (3) Conoids 

 and Spheroids; (4) On Spirals; (5) Equiponderants and 

 Centres of Gravity; (6) The Quadrature of the Parabola; 

 (7) On Bodies Floating in Liquids; (8) The Psammites; 

 (9) A Collection of Lemmas. 



ARISTARCHUS. See vol. i., p. 212. 



Magnitudes and Distances of the Sun and Moon is the 

 only surviving work. In the Armarius of Archimedes 

 another work of Aristarchus is quoted the one in which 

 he anticipates the discovery of Copernicus. Delambre, 

 in his Histoire de I 'astronomic ancienne, treats fully the 

 discoveries of Aristarchus. 



ARISTOTLE. See vol. i., p. 82. 



An edition of Aristotle was published by Aldus, Venice, 

 1495-1498, 5 vols. During the following eighty years 

 seven editions of the Greek text of the entire works were 

 published, and many Latin translations. 



BEROSUS. See vol. i., p. 58. 



The fragments of Berosus have been trans, by I. P. 

 Cory, and included in his Ancient Fragments of Phoeni- 

 cian, Chaldean, Egyptian, and Other Writers, London, 

 1826; second edition, 1832. 



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