PREFACE.

This is a great and difficult work, but it is necessary and has long been desired by everyone who has approached this branch of literature. I have already cleared the way for it, as much as I could, in my dissertation titled Questions on Archimedes original: "Quaestiones Archimedeae" (Copenhagen, 1879), so that the works of Archimedes might finally be published according to the laws of critical art. I will now attempt to achieve this goal myself, in a way that satisfies not only scholars seeking the subject matter but also those seeking the very words and, as it were, the hand of Archimedes. For the first task of all was to have the excellent Florentine codex a primary manuscript source carefully re-collated. I was able to do this in Florence in the month of October 1879, a trip I took with the financial assistance of the Carlsberg Institute. For this generosity, I offer the greatest thanks to the men who oversee this institute, and in particular to I. N. Madvig, a most learned and famous man and my teacher, who has added this to his other kindnesses.

On the same journey, I also inspected the Venetian codex and collated the entire Sand Reckoner original: "Arenarius".

Having collated the Florentine codex, I persuaded myself that the question of the relationship and connection between the Archimedean codices, which I discussed in Questions on Archimedes, chapter VI, must be reconsidered. Therefore, I will discuss this matter more fully at the end of this edition.

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