Thomas Heath
Thomas Heath (
1861 -
1940) was a
mathematician,
classical scholar,
historian of ancient
Greek mathematics, and translator. He translated works of
Euclid of Alexandria,
Apollonius of Perga, and
Archimedes of
Syracuse into
English. His translation of the celebrated
Archimedes Palimpsest had lacunae that scholars hope to fill in by modern scientific methods not available in Heath's time. It is primarily through Heath's translations that modern English-speaking readers are aware of what Archimedes did.
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