TITLE:
Archimedes’ to Eratosthenes in the Palimpsest and Archimedes in Heron’s Metrikon
AUTHORS:
Giuseppe Boscarino
KEYWORDS:
Methodos (Method), Ephodos (Methodics), Tropos (Way), Theorein (To Theorize), Deiknunai (To Prove), Tomai (Partitions), Italic Thought of Science
JOURNAL NAME:
Advances in Historical Studies,
Vol.4 No.5,
December
29,
2015
ABSTRACT: It is argued that even with some new readings made by the publication of the Letter to Eratosthenes in the Archimedes Palimpsest, with the wonderful discovery of his so-called “mechanical
method” (a certain way of theorizing in mathematical things by means of mechanical entities) at the
beginning of the twentieth century, some important historical-philological and philosophicalepistemological
issues still remain, which have already discussed in part in my writings. We produce
some important testimonies taken from Metrikon by Heron of Alexandria in favour of our
translations and interpretations of Archimedes’ lexicon, not without placing under investigation
at the same time the personality and the importance of Hero in the history of philosophical, scientific
and technological Greek-Hellenistic thought in line with Archimedes and the tradition of Italic
thought of science (The quotations of the Greek texts of Archimedes, Heron and Pappus are my
translations).