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Excerpt from Geometrical Solutions Derived From Mechanics: A Treatise of Archimedes
The first proposition concerns the quadrature of the parabola, a subject treated at length in one of his earlier communications to Dositheos.5 He gives a digest of the treatment, but with the warning that the proof is not com plete, as it is in his special work upon the subject. He has, in fact, summarized propositions VII-XVII of his com munication to Dositheos, omitting the geometric treat ment of propositions XVIII-XXIV. One thing that he does not state, here or in any of his works, is where the idea of center of gravity started. It was certainly a com mon notion in his day, for he often uses it without defining it. It appears in Euclid's time, but how much earlier we cannot as yet say.
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